Diversity and Health Assessment

Diversity and Health Assessment

As healthcare professionals we work with various kinds of people from different cultures,

a community often advances our health environment spirit. Understanding the race, cultural

heritage, sociological context and sexual orientation of the individual are historically important

(Ball, Dains, Flynn, Salomon & Stewart, 2019).

Case Study

AG is a 54-year-old Caucasian male who was referred to your clinic to establish care

after a recent hospitalization after having a seizure related to alcohol withdrawal. He has

hypertension and a history of alcohol and cocaine abuse. He is homeless and is currently living at

a local homeless shelter. He reports that he is out of his amlodipine 10 mg, which he takes for

hypertension. He reports he is abstaining from alcohol and cocaine but needs to smoke cigarettes

to calm down since he is not drinking anymore.

Cultural factors

The relationship remains patient-oriented and constructive, by Respect's model for

communicating with AG, where RESPECT stands as Statement, Empathy, Help, Relationship,

Explanation, Cultural Competency and Confiance (Ball, Dains, Flynn & Stewart, 2019). By

using the RESPECT model as our interrogation method, we are able to establish a link by being

compassionate and respectful; by empathically questioning him about how he got homeless or

what led to his current situation we can better understand. We can provide AG with a better

understanding or assistance by asking how we can best help him out of his current situation by

asking if his current health, emotional, physical and economic conditions will help him reach the

right public services at his disposal. It is an excellent strategy to accept him for his soberness in

alcoholic beverages and drugs but at the same time to tell him what smoking does for the body

and how he raises his risk of heart diseases, because of nicotine. It is an excellent strategy to

recognize he has a deep desire to change his risk factors. Taïlor, Kendzor, Reitzel, & Businelle

(2016) said Smoking cessation is effective in relationships through sports or other behavioral

therapy (Saeed, Osman & Mohamed, 2019). Offering and providing recommendations based on

evidence to resolve the present health problems and to ensure that everything that you say and do

is kept confidential builds trust and opens up the conversation (Germany, et al., 2019).

Targeted Questions

i. What is your description on how you lost your home?

ii. How long have you ceased using cocaine and alcohol?

iii. What’s the number of cigarettes do you smoke in a single day?

iv. Is there a way we can assist you to stop smoking?

v. Do you adhere to your BP meds as prescribed?

Reference

Ball, J. W., Dains, J. E., Flynn, J. A., Solomon, B. S., & Stewart, R. W. (2019).Seidel's guide to

physicalexamination(8th ed.).St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.

Saeed, A., Osman, N., & Mohamed, A. E. (2019). Study of some methods of smoking

cessation.Egyptian Journal of Bronchology,13(1), 132–137.

https://doi.org/10.4103/ejb.ejb_85_17

Taylor, E. M., Kendzor, D. E., Reitzel, L. R., & Businelle, M. S. (2016). Health Risk Factors

andtheDesire to Change among Homeless Adults. American Journal of Health Behavior, 40(4),

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