Diversity in Nursing

Diversity/ Module 3/ DB question.

Critical Thinking Question #5

You are assigned a new patient, a 24-year old man, from El Salvador named Jose Calderon. At morning report, you learn that he has been a gang member in El Salvador, and because he wanted to stop all gang-related activities, his life was threatened. He fled to the United States and has been granted political asylum. You are told that he has extensive tattoos on his body. What do you know about gang membership in Central America? In the United States? How does membership in a gang address the needs of adolescents? What are the cultural factors that are important to consider when you are planning nursing care for a patient like Jose? For example, how do you view body tattoos? What are the issues related to political asylum, immigration, and the like? How might you assist Jose to meet his development needs? What might be the problems he will encounter in the US society or in our health care system?