Introduction
Globalization in the nursing sector refers to the influence of the increased international relations and migrations to the healthcare industries, specifically focusing on the nursing practices. The recent increases in global relations and trade alliances have caused the rise of labor importation and exportation of the nursing practitioners across the globe. The migration is along the areas where the services are mostly need and along the areas where the services are recognized and rewarded adequately. However, ethical and professional issues have been raised owing to the influence of the personal cultural values influences on his professional nursing practices. Nurse professionals from various ethnicity and cultural practices have exhibited significant influence of their culture to their nursing practice despite the adoption of the nursing code of ethics and professional code of ethics (Christina, 2015).
My Culture
My culture is Haitian culture, with my family roots in the Hawaii Mountains where we value family relations and respect between the extended family. Our culture puts a significant value in the human health attributing it to the primary source of the personal and community wealth. We believe that the individual and community health determines the economic and social prosperity of the community. The health of the community and individuals is significantly attributed to the environment safety and health issues. In the light of that, we value significantly the environment health and all production and industrial processes in the region must have a demonstrated regard for the environment. In addition, we value traditional methods of healthcare. The young people must demonstrate respect to the older generations in the community, and this extends to the healthcare centers. The nurses should attend to the elderly first, and the young patients should excuse the elderly to be attended first.
Cultures I most Strongly Identify With
The cultures I most strongly identify with are the Silicon Valley culture and the Hispanic culture. The Silicon Valley culture values personal and community health that has been exhibited by their industrial regulations to avoid polluting the environment. The Hispanics value community and personal health that is considered as a community issue. In both cultures, respect by the young to the elders is significantly encouraged and expected.
How an Asian Health Worker Views her Cultural Norms
The cultural norms of the Asians influence their roles in the ethical and professional nursing practices in various ways. Some of the ways are beneficial to the patients and some of the methods are not encouraged in the medical practices.
How These Cultural Norms Influence his or her Practice
Although the nursing and medical practices promote scientifically and medically approved diagnosing processes, prevention programs and treatments, the deep cultural practices of alternative method is prescribed to by the Asians (Aeri, 2012). The cultural practices of the Asians recognizes and advocates for the alternative medicine and traditional prevention, management, and healing processes, some of which they claim are more efficient than the medical procedures. In addition, some conditions lack specific medical interventions and in the instances, the Asians may prescribe traditional methods (McElroy, 2011).
How this Person has Become Acculturated into his or her Profession in the US
In the US, professional nursing practices are a mandatory. The culture have made the Asians slowly abandon their traditional practices and adopt medically approved methods. The social settings of living as communities have been eroded by the personal responsibility and duties that have significantly replaced the extended family relations with the regard of the entire community (Bell, 2015).
Suggestions From this Person for Giving care to People from his/her Country That Eliminates Cultural Barriers
The person can offer professional medical care to all the persons with disregard of the Asian alternative and traditional medicine.
Roles of the Nurses in the Global Health
Individual, community, and environment health are the key factors that determine the health of the globe. Health is a significant issue in the global development and prosperity. A healthy community is economically productive, and improved social, and family/sex life. Nurses play a significant role in improving, prevention, caring, and restoration of the global health through their services (Marquis & Huston, 2014). Nurses form the majority of the healthcare providers and play a critical role at all healthcare processing. They provide a crucial link in the treatment process by offering medical care and providing moral attachment to the patients that instill confidence and trust between the healthcare providers and the patients. The nurses influence the clinical practices by offering admission services in the healthcare institutions, diagnosis procedures, administering to the in-patients, and sometimes prescription services depending on the specialty of the nurse.
The nurses provide critical information to be used in the research to advance treatment and patient outcomes in the medical sector. The evidence-based observation information offered by the nurses in their interaction with the patients provides a significant foundation for health studies. In the recent medical healthcare changes, the studies have shifted from focusing on the evaluation of the literature materials and performing experiments to validate the literature. The approach has been changed to the use of the evidence-based research that focuses on the use of the observed evidence to improve the treatment, intervention, and management health processes. In addition, the nurses have played a critical role in the community and environment health through sharing of the medical practices and outcomes with the relevant bodies that enables the policy makers to develop effective policies (Salmon, 2015).
My Belief Regarding the Global Migration/Recruitment of Nurses
Globalization has fostered international relations and labor importation and export as well as global collaboration in the healthcare sector (Bell, 2015, p. 84). The nursing practitioners currently may work anywhere in the globe where their services are needed. The migration of the nurses has been attributed to the demand for their services, and on the other hand, their desire to have their profession recognized and rewarded in the society (Sparacio, 2009). The countries that have set their health policies favorable to the nursing operations have attracted the international nursing practitioners in large numbers. On the contrary, the countries that does not value the services offered by the nurses have seen the nursing community seek for better terms abroad leaving the sector with inadequate labor supply. Some countries have declined to recognize the essential services offered by the nurses and resulted to authoritative methods to retain their nurses. Incidences of travel and Diaspora working restriction have been reported in some countries in the Middle East and Arabian countries (Christina, 2015, p. 6).
I believe the global migration of the nurses is to the advantage of the community and the nurses. The regions where they lack enough nursing professionals benefit from importing the services from the regions where they are in surplus. On the other hand, the countries that have produced more nursing professionals than their healthcare industry can handle benefit by exporting the labor to the other regions where the services lack. In addition, in the countries where the Government do not value the critical work provided by the nurses, they can seek jobs elsewhere in the regions where the job terms are favorable. In the spirit of the competition, the countries are prompted to recognize the essential functions of the nurses and draw policies that promote the nursing industry (Sparacio, 2009, p. 240).
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