May 2012, Alice Randall wrote an article for The New York Times on the cultural factors that encouraged black women to maintain a weight above what is considered healthy. Randall explained—from her observations and her personal experience as a black woman—that many African-American communities and cultures consider women who are overweight to be more beautiful and desirable than women at a healthier weight. As she put it, “Many black women are fat because we want to be” (Randall, 2012). Photo Credit: Getty Images Randall’s statements sparked a great deal of controversy and debate; however, they emphasize an underlying reality in the healthcare field: different populations, cultures, and groups have diverse beliefs and practices that impact their health. Nurses and healthcare professionals should be aware of this reality and adapt their health assessment techniques and recommendations to accommodate diversity. In this Discussion, you will consider different socioeconomic, spiritual, lifestyle, and other cultural factors that should be taken into considerations when building a health history for patients with diverse backgrounds. Your Instructor will assign a case study to you for this Discussion. To prepare: • Reflect on your experiences as a nurse and on the information provided in this week’s Learning Resources on diversity issues in health assessments. • By Day 1 of this week, you will be assigned a case study by your Instructor. Note: Please see the “Course Announcements” section of the classroom for your case study assignment. • Reflect on the specific socioeconomic, spiritual, lifestyle, and other cultural factors related to the health of the patient assigned to you. • Consider how you would build a health history for the patient. What questions would you ask, and how would you frame them to be sensitive to the patient’s background, lifestyle, and culture? Develop five targeted questions you would ask the patient to build his or her health history and to assess his or her health risks. • Think about the challenges associated with communicating with patients from a variety of specific populations. What strategies can you as a nurse employ to be sensitive to different cultural factors while gathering the pertinent information? By Day 3 of Week 2 Post an explanation of the specific socioeconomic, spiritual, lifestyle, and other cultural factors associated with the patient you were assigned. Explain the issues that you would need to be sensitive to when interacting with the patient, and why. Provide at least five targeted questions you would ask the patient to build his or her health history and to assess his or her health risks. By Day 6 of Week 2 Respond on or before Day 6 on 2 different days to at least two of your colleagues who were assigned a different patient than you. Critique your colleague’s targeted questions, and explain how the patient might interpret these questions. Explain whether any of the questions would apply to your patient, and why. Resources:
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Sophocles uses Creon and Oedipus’s hamartia to teach the flaw of ignorance to cultural morals. Hamartia is a characteristic of a tragic hero that ultimately causes there downfall. Their hamartia is arrogance, or exaggerated self pride. Oedipus and Creon both ignore the advice of prophets, because of their self pride. Originally Creon vowed to keep Antigone safe. However, Creon acts as if he is above the gods, sentencing Antigone to death, and ignores the prophet. Righteously, Antigone performed a proper religious burial on her brother Polyneices. Creon established that Antigone breaking his law, and essentially sentences her to death. Antigone says to Creon, “What ordinance, what law of heaven broken, what god left me to cast my eyes toward, when sacraments must now be damned as sacrilege” (Sophocles 232). Antigone is stating that Creon is acting as if his laws are above the laws of the gods. What should be the way humanity connects to gods is being turned into a form of offense. However, Creon continues to ignore Thebes’ cultural morals. After Creon leaves Antigone in solarity to die, the prophet, Tiresias, comes to share news. Tiresias warns Creon he made a terrible mistake in his policy. By punishing Antigone Creon destroyed order and disrupted nature. Tiresias advises Creon to undo the mess, else the gods will be upset and his son Haemon will die. However, Creon ignores the cultural moral to accepts the prophets advice. Creon states Tiresias is corrupt and dismisses him. Oedipus also ignores the advice of Tiresias. At the time of Oedipus’ rule there was a plague, capable of being ended only with the exiling of Laius’ killer. Although, unknown by Oedipus, he is the killer of Laius. In attempts to stop the plague, Oedipus asks Tiresias who the killer is. Tiresias grudgingly reveals Oedipus is Laius’ killer. Similar to Creon, Oedipus completely disregards Tiresias’ news. Oedipus then tells Tiresias that he thinks that Tiresias played part in the murder. Oedipus also blames Creon for the murder. Since Oedipus lacks trust Tiresias word, the plague remains burdensome in Thebes. Oedipus ignores prophetic word in an earlier experience with a prophet. The prophet told Oedipus that he would marry his mother and kill his father. Oedipus again ignored the prophets word. Due to the two tragic heros’ hamartia and peripeteia is later present. Sophocles is teaching the potential harm of the ignorance of cultural morals, through both tragic heros’ Peripeteia. Peripeteia is the tragic hero’s reversal of fortune, their downfall. Both Creon and Oedipus come to a life of adversity, subsequent to their actions of arrogance. After Creon ignores the prophet, his life rapidly fell downhill. The Chorus speaks up, and eventually convinces Creon to follow the Tiresias’ words. However, by the time Creon sets out to undo his actions it is to late. Creon hurry’s over to free Antigone from her death place. The messenger expresses the news to Eurydice, “His panic sent is flying to the cave, and in the farthest corner we could see her hanging with a moose of linen around her neck” (Sophocles 246). Antigone killed herself because the sole point to the rest her life was to >
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