It is up to us nurses to strike the delicate balance between preserving cultural beliefs and values, and customs while sharing our own that may be different. The debate exercises you did in an earlier module hopefully helped you formulate thoughtful and yet sensitive and respectful retorts. APNs are expected to deliver care in a nonjudgmental and nondiscriminatory manner that is sensitive to client diversity. She explored values and beliefs that determine the context of rural and urban healthcare. She noted that cultural context may be high or low.
Family communication is high context, but stranger communication is low context.
High context equals high involvement and has much less intergenerational and kinship knowledge and is less responsive to change. Low context provides less intergenerational and kinship knowledge and is more readily responsive to change. Nurses can strive to understand cultural context and use it to cultivate acceptance and cooperative partnerships in health care. Do some searching on Transcultural Nursing on the Internet. One classmate, VL, said, Most of the sites recognize that there is a danger associated with transcultural nursing theories and models because there is an assumption that people can be categorized, rather than individualized, by virtue of race, culture, and ethnicity.