Multicultural Communication in Nursing

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Multicultural communication focuses on communication across cultures. The dynamics in this type of communication show what happens when two people from different cultures meet (Rakshit, 2014). Besides, individuals must communicate if they should interact. Also, multicultural communication emphasizes what happens when people from various cultures meet in one organization, society, or country. For instance, the patients and healthcare professionals coming together at a facility originate from different cultures, and their communication process yields multicultural communication (Rakshit, 2014). The clinicians may also be originating from varying cultural contexts. Multicultural communication originates from the need to create a cohesive and productive environment for people from different cultural contexts (Rakshit, 2014). It helps people interact effectively with colleagues, clients, and management. Thus. It fosters trust during the interaction as people agree with each on the context of their working environment.
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Culture, ethnicity, and acculturation correlate and vary in different ways in health care. Looking into the definitions shows their stand in patients and health professionals’ interaction during the delivery of care. Culture is the ideas, norms, customs, and social behavior of a particular group of individuals or society (Pires & Stanton 2000). Pires & Stanton (2000) argue that ethnicity is the situation of belonging to a specific ethnic group. Finally, acculturation is the progressive adoption of a foreign culture, including the elements such as ideas, norms, words, and behaviors by individuals or groups specific ethnicities (Pires & Stanton 2000). The definition of acculturation entails both ethnicity and culture, whereby people from different ethnic classes adopt and start implementing and living by foreign cultures. On the other hand, people in a specific ethnic group are defined by what they believe in and how they carry out social activities. Pires & Stanton (2000) reveal that the groups are guided by individual cultural values that contribute to the formation and definition.
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Cultural and religious differences affect health care professionals in significant ways. Although the setting could be willing to offer maximum care to patients from varying cultural and religious diversities, they are limited by what the people believe in, according to these aspects. The elements result in a lack of efficacy in the delivery of care since health care professionals must consider and respect them. Some of the beliefs put health care professionals in the dilemma of whether to follow what is required in the treatment procedures or to obey them. The confusion alters the process yielding inefficacy. On the other hand, cross-cultural communication can raise significant issues in health care. The primary issue is misunderstanding where the parties involved have originated and consider different ideas, resulting from challenging in communication and understanding the idea of coming to an agreement. The issue of one-sided belief and implementation could also be a problem in cross-cultural communication as the people only want to hold on t...