Achieving Cultural Competency: A Case-Based Approach to Training Health Professionals

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Pub. Date: 2009-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Achieving Cultural Competency: A Case-Based Approach to Training Health Professionals provides the necessary tools to meet the ever-growing need for culturally competent practitioners and trainees. Twenty-five self-study cases cover a variety of medical topics, including cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurology, oncology, hematology, immunology, and pediatric disorders. Actual scenarios that occurred in clinical settings help the user gain direct insight into the realities of practice today. Cultural factors covered within the cases include cultural diversity plus gender, language, folk beliefs, socioeconomic status, religion, and sexual orientation.

Table of Contents

Contributors
CME Disclosure Information
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tools to Assess Cultural Competency Training (TACCT)
Case 1 Ruth Franklin: A 40-year-old African American woman with heart failure
Case 2 Carl Jones: A 48-year-old homeless Caucasian man with chest pain and lung cancer
Case 3 Maria Morales: A 57-year-old Mexican woman with type 2 diabetes
Case 4 Maya Mohammed: A 15-year-old Arab American teenager with leukaemia
Case 5 Jon Le: A 48-year-old Korean man with cerebral hemorrhage
Case 6 Nadia Rosenberg: A 53-year-old Russian woman with drug-resistant tuberculosis
Case 7 Isabel Delgado: A 47-year-old Dominican woman with hypertension
Case 8 George Dennis: A 35-year-old African American man with AIDS
Case 9 Mary Jones: A 2-year-old Caucasian girl with delayed speech development
Case 10 Priya Krishnamurthy: A 73-year-old South Asian Indian woman with a stroke
Case 11 Carlos Cruz: A 34-year-old Mexican man with sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome
Case 12 Denise Smith: A 41-year-old Caucasian woman with asthma
Case 13 Mae Ling Chung: A 22-year-old Chinese woman in an arranged marriage
Case 14 Earl Collins: A 73-year-old African American man with lung cancer
Case 15 Irma Matos: A 66-year-old Ecuadorian woman with type 2 diabetes and hypertension
Case 16 Eileen Clark: An 82-year-old African American woman with a stroke
Case 17 Leslie O'Malley: A 66-year-old Irish American man with breast cancer
Case 18 Juana Caban: A 21-year-old Puerto Rican woman who is pregnant and HIV-positive
Case 19 Alice Gregory: A 71-year-old African American woman with aortic stenosis
Case 20 Sunil Guha: A 32-year-old South Asian Indian man with metabolic syndrome
Case 21 Pepper Hawthorne: A 19-year-old Caucasian woman with a stroke
Case 22 Alika Nkuutu: A 24-year-old African woman with sickle cell disease
Case 23 Miguel Cortez: A 9-year-old Mexican boy with asthma
Case 24 Naomi Fulton: A 49-year-old African American woman with metabolic syndrome
Case 25 Bobby Napier: A 68-year-old Caucasian Appalachian man with type 2 diabetes
Positioning the Interpreter
Kleinman's Explanatory Model of Illness
Multiple Choice Questions
Answers
Index
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