Case Study: Through the Eyes of the Patient and the Healthcare Professional

Allied health professionals are confronted with different death and dying practices. An effective allied health professional recognizes the importance of understanding different cultural practices, and learns how to evaluate the death, dying, and spiritual beliefs and practices across the cultures.

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Read the two specified case histories and choose one for this assignment.

Chapter 4, “Stories of Abby: An Ojibwa Journey” and Chapter 14, “Stories of Shanti: Culture and Karma,” by Gelfland, Raspa, and Sherylyn, from End-of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005), from the GCU Library.

Identify your role as a health care professional in supporting Abby’s or Shanti’s dying rituals, and in creating strategies for displaying respect while still providing quality care. Identify communication strategies necessary in caring for your select person. Integrate your strategies as you develop a care plan describing how you would approach the situation and care for the patient. Review the “Care Plan” template prior to beginning.

Include the following in your care plan:

Communication: family and patient
Treatment options that align with the specific culture
Education: family and patient
Family roles in the process
Spiritual beliefs
Barriers
Cultural responses
Any additional components that you feel would need to be addressed (from your perspective as a health care professional)

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

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HLT-324V-RS-CarePlanTemplate.docx

Care Plan

HLT-324V: Transcultural Health Care

Patient’s Name: ____________________________________________________ Date: ________________________________________

Patient’s Diagnosis: ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Problems/Needs (Include date.)	Goals	Interventions/Actions	Discipline/Person Responsible	Outcome/Comments (Initial and date.)

Care Plan

HLT 324V: Transcultural Health Care

Patient’s Name:

____________________________________________________

Date:

________________________________________

Patient’s Diagnosis:

____________________________________________________

_______________________________________

Problems/Needs (Include date.)

Goals

Interventions/Actions

Discipline/Person Responsible

Outcome/Comments

(Initial and date.)

Care Plan

HLT-324V: Transcultural Health Care

Patient’s Name: ____________________________________________________ Date: ________________________________________

Patient’s Diagnosis: ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Problems/Needs

(Include date.)

Goals Interventions/Actions Discipline/Person

Responsible

Outcome/Comments

(Initial and date.)