Nurse Patient Exchange Program

INTRODUCTION

Nurse-patient relationship is therapeutic as it enhances the patient’s well-being and help gain independence as soon as possible thereby helping the patient build more trust and self-esteem which nurtures patient’s hope in the nursing profession, and gratifies their physiological needs through knowledge and good skills (Wenniljoy, 2012). Hence, the reason why group of nursing students from the Kent State University at Salem deem it fit to travel to Toronto, Canada on January 21, 2014, for a cultural exchange program; where they can acquire more cultural diversity knowledge and relationship skills towards role transition and delivering of healthcare, and during this great impact programme, at the ‘what students had to say segment’, Haeli Todd said “This trip opened my eyes to a lot of the different cultures. I learned that we have lots of biases inside of us, but (they) blew it all out of the park. I’ll remember this for the rest of my life” (www.salem.kent.edu, 2014).

In consonance, knowing the origin and impact of a concept can help in explaining its forms. Nursing profession curricula over the years has shown that nursing students and registered nurses are being technically trained and competent, but yet can still profer an incompetent and unworkable interventions due to ignorance or unwillingness to acquire cultural diversity knowledge (West, 1994).

Furthermore, research has it that nurses most times fail to provide sensitive and essential healthcare to clients of sub-groups in the community (Gerrish and Papadopoulos, 1999).

However, cultural competency should always have its ground in health-care, as the world’s population is biting more into multiculturalism; taking for example, the United States as a multicult...

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...osis of cirrhosis. She said the language barrier must have created feelings of loneliness and fear, because when I entered his room I immediately noticed the fear and pain in his eyes. He was grimacing and teary-eyed, which broke my heart. But he heard my greeting in Spanish his appearance changed, he smiled and asked me if I spoke the language, and I answered “yes.” He said, “Hay, gracias,” which means thank you, with a sigh of relief. He was able to talk to me about his abdominal pain and his arrival at the ED.

Being a competent cultural nurse will enhance good nursing communication skills and marketability, and will also provide adequate care for your patients (Ward, 2014).

CONCLUSION

In consonance with the above discussion, I thereby make a logical criticism of the West’s quotation that the nursing profession has make an ample headway in growth and development.