A care giver an individual either a relative or an employee assigned or voluntary providing health care to the sick or patients in the society. They thus require special skills so as to effectively care for their patients. The skills provide the knowledge and change of altitude and understanding of the patient’s medical condition.
Patient’s education is process of transferring health related knowledge to patients and developing skills that ensure that the knowledge transferred is of help to their lives. Providers are therefore mandated to design, develop and implement the relevant content for their patients covering on the different diverse cultural backgrounds. This information should be updated and freely accessible to the patients either orally, in print form and even electronically.
Effective communication between a patient and the care provider is very important for the care provider to properly interpret the patient’s symptoms and medical history so as to determine the best course of action in treating the patient; they should both have a unified language of communication that does not create completions creating unnecessary anxiety to the patient.
The diverse languages in the United States has been a big challenge for the care providers because at times they may be forced to get the assistance of interpreters who may have little no knowledge on how to communicate with patients and even some medical terminologies and this might result to the patient getting the wrong information about the status of their health. Confidentiality incases of interpreters becomes difficult since the interpreters may have no medical ethics of confidentiality.
The differences in the cultural believes among the different ethnic communities is a major challenge since some communities believe in traditional ways of treatment without embracing change and this provides a major challenge for the health providers as they convince the cultures to adopt modern ways of healthy care, this requires proper education and training on ways of passing the information.
The cost of health care is a major impediment in the provision of patient’s education since hiring translators to communicate with the patients in a language they can comprehend and make them satisfied will raise the cost of the health care system which will be added to patient’s bill and this leads to many patients being locked out of the healthy care systems. The federal civil rights law ensures that every one irrespective of their race and color is denied the access to health care in the United States. The law provides the patients with limited English proficiency must be provided written materials.
The providers are supposed by the law to provide timely language needs to the patients. The law also demands that federal funds provides the primary source of funds to pay for the language services In order to have an effective patient educational service in healthy care providers must ensure that they recruit and retain a diverse staff representing the ethnic and demographic characteristics of the region they serve. The providers should receive training on the cultures of the region they serve so as to improve on their healthy care provision services.
The community served by the provider can be involved in partnerships so as to create links that make it easier for the health providers to effectively communicate with the community, and identify and solve cultural conflicts from the patients In conclusion, healthy care providers must always ensure that consumers get the best education so as to make the best choices on their personal healthy and this can only be achieved by having an effective, understandable and respectful care team that is content with all the cultures in the region.
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