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Multicultural Patient Care
The Market Orientation of the Family Birthing Center is no doubt, diverse. It is also an excellent avenue for health care reforms as the community hospital is forced to cater to the needs of people that speak 40 different languages, to do it well, and to serve as an example for other hospitals that multicultural patient care is possible and could be done in the best possible way (Noonan & Savolaine).
As the demographics of the United States continue to change to include more foreign nationals, health care professionals need to become increasingly aware of multicultural issues. Developing a greater cultural awareness of a particular client population can aid health care providers in improved care giving. With the steady increase of people from other countries coming to the United States, health care professionals have been asked to assess and respond to the needs of a more diverse community such as the one confronting the Family Birthing Center. Changes in the racial, ethnic, and religious make-up of this country challenge those in health care to assess how to deliver care to their clients. Many advanced health care professionals have recognized the need to respond to changing populations, including the American Nurses Association,...
Likewise, the Family Birthing Center has taken the initiative to provide health care to its diverse community of immigrant patients in order to not let them be left out in terms of what they care to obtain from the hospital (Noonan & Savolaine).
Faced with an influx of immigrant mothers over the past decade, delivery rooms across the Washington area too are increasingly adapting not just to unfamiliar languages, but also to a new set of traditions and taboos. As an example, consider the following case. As his pregnant wife was wheeled into the delivery room, an African man made an unexpected announcement: According to the custom of his native religion, the couple's baby would need to be washed in wine immediately after birth. 'Not a problem,' said the nurses at Montgomery General Hospital. After quickly consulting a doctor to make sure the ritual was safe, the nurse manager launched a frenzied hunt for a glass of wine in the cafeteria. Then, under the father's proud gaze, the nurse manager gave her tiny charge the Olney hospital's first-ever wine sponge bath. "Of course this was very foreign to us," she said. "But to deny…
Works Cited
Noonan, M.D., and Savolaine, R. (2001. Winter). A neighborhood of nations. Marketing Health Services.
Peterson, R. (1996. April 1). A patient care team approach to multicultural patient care issues. Journal of Nursing Care Quality.
Post Staff Writer. (2002. May 12). International Deliveries; Maternity Wards Adapt to Special Needs of Region's Rush of Immigrants. The Washington Post.
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