Hlt324 (all weeks discussions and assignments) full course

1. HLT324 (all weeks Discussions and Assignments) Full Course
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HLT324 (all weeks Discussions and Assignments) Full Course
HLT324 week 1 dq 1 & dq 2
HLT324week 1 dq 1
Describe the concept of “variant characteristics of culture.” Which characteristics can change and which cannot? Is
equality for variant cultures typically supported in the United States? Provide examples to support your statement.
HLT324 week 1 dq 2
How does cultural competency occur? What can one do to become culturally aware? Describe an effective approach
to using The Purnell Model when working with subcultures (immigration status, gender, political beliefs,
socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, educational status, etc.).
HLT324 week 2 dq 1 & dq 2
HLT324 week 2 dq 1
From your readings, which cultural difference would be most challenging for you to understand? Why? How would
you prepare to work with individuals from this culture in order to respect their culture?
HLT324 week 2 dq 2
If health care practitioners cannot communicate to the patients in their language, how important is it to find a
translator? Whose problem is it, the health care provider’s or the patient’s? Why?
HLT324 week 3 dq 1 & dq 2
HLT324 week 3 dq 1
From the 10 select cultural groups you selected for the High-Risk Nutritional Practices assignment, briefly explain an
unusual high-risk practice and how it impacts your role as a medical professional.
HLT324 week 3 dq 2
What factors influencing nutritional practices in the United States could be changed to improve health?
HLT324 week 4 dq 1 & dq 2
HLT324 week 4 dq 1
Describe the spectrum of death and dying rituals and practices. Why are death and dying rituals so significant?

2. HLT324 week 4 dq 2
What death and dying practices are contrary to your personal beliefs or chosen religious values? How will you
support a patient’s death and dying rituals and practices, and still honor your own?
HLT324 week 5 dq 1 & dq 2
HLT324 week 5 dq 1
If you were caring for a child who could be cured if given blood transfusions, but whose parents refused permission to
give the transfusions due to religious beliefs, what would you do?
HLT324 week 5 dq 2
Some parents are refraining from giving certain immunizations to their children. How will this affect diseases in the
United States in the future? How as medical professionals can we embrace these nontraditional practices?
HLT324 week 1 Allied Health Community Media Scenario Assignment
Details:
The ability to communicate, interact with different cultures, and think critically is essential in the medical field. The
interactive media scenario you will use for this assignment illustrates a situation that could easily arise when working
in health care. To complete this assignment:
Go to the “Allied Health Community” media link: http://lc.gcumedia.com/hlt307v/allied-health-community/allied-health-
community-v1.1.html
Click “Enter” to begin.
Click on the box that says “SCENARIOS.”
Click on “View Scenario” for the “Critical Decision Making for Providers.”
Examine how the described problem might happen in your facility and the impact it could have. Work through this
situation by examining allof the choices presented in the scenario.
When you get to the end of the scenarios, one scenario will have the word “Transcultural” on the top right corner.
Click on “Transcultural.” Read the scenario and answer the four questions that are provided.
While APA format is not required for this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and
references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide
located in the Student Success Center.
You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
HLT324 week 1 Diversity in Health Care Essay Benchmark Assignment
Details:
Diversity has a significant influence on health care. Studying transcultural health care helps health professionals
understand different cultures in order to provide holistic and individualized health care. Review the Purnell Model for
Cultural Competence, including the theory, framework and 12 domains. Write 750-1,000 word paper exploring the
Purnell Model for Cultural Competence. Include the following:
1. 1. Explain the theory and organizational framework of the Purnell Model, and discuss its relevance to
transcultural health care.
2. 2. Describe Purnell’s 12 domains of culture, and assess how each of these domains plays an active role in
the diversity of health care in your specific field.

3. 3. 3. Discuss how this model can be applied when working with different cultures in order to become a more
culturally competent health care provider.
4. 4. Cite at least three references, including the course textbook.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student
Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
HLT324 week 2 Assignment
Details:
It is important to identify and understand your own family culture in order to be able to understand and respect other
cultures. Interview a family member, and an individual from another culture with which you are unfamiliar. Some
examples of an individual from another culture to consider for the assignment include a neighbor, coworker, patient,
or friend. Please inform the individuals of the purpose of this assignment and make sure you receive their consent.
Interviews:
Review the “Family Interview” template prior to the interview. Additional space is designated on the template for you
to create three additional questions to ask both interviewees (family member and person from another culture).
Additional questions should be relevant to the readings or discussion and should provide value to the interview by
helping to understand culture.
Some of the questions may include:
1. 1. Family beliefs: Have they changed over generations?
2. 2. Educational and occupational status in the culture and in the family
3. 3. Communication methods: verbal and nonverbal
4. 4. Current family goals/priorities
5. 5. Family member roles and organizational systems
6. 6. Spiritual beliefs: current practice and death and dying
7. 7. Alternative lifestyles
8. 8. Work attitudes and structure
Written Paper:
Using the “Family Interview” template, interview your designated family member and the person from another culture.
Be sure to write your responses in a way that will assist you in writing your paper. After the interview is completed,
write a paper of 750-1,000 words that includes the following:
1. 1. An introductory paragraph with the reasons for selecting the interviewees.
2. 2. A summary of the responses from the interview template gathered from the interviewees.
3. 3. A comparison and contrast of your findings between the two interviewees.
4. 4. A reflective concluding paragraph on how family roles affect the cultural domains and relationships for
each individual.
General Requirements:
Submit both the completed “Family Interview” template and the written paper” to the instructor.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student
Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Family Interview

4. HLT-324V: Transcultural Health Care
College of Nursing and Health Care Professions
When conducting the “Family Interview,” please make sure that you inform the individual you choose to interview that
you will be using their responses in a compare and contrast cultural paper for HLT-324V. It is important that people
give you approval to use their personal stories prior to doing so. Please use this template and the following questions
below when conducting your interviews. In addition to these questions, you are required to ask another three
questions, which you are to include on this template. Please submit this template with your paper by the end of
Module 2.
1. 1. What are your family roles/gender roles? How are they the same as or different fromthose traditionally
practiced by your culture (who is the head of the household, who makes decisions, how are decisions made, etc.)?
2. 2. What does your culture and family see as primary family goals (education, marriage,etc.)?
3. 3. What is your culture’s view on alternative lifestyles (living together prior to marriage, domestic
partnerships, single parenting, etc.)?
4. 4. What are your family’s religious beliefs, andhavetheychanged over generations?
5. 5. What areyour family’s spiritual beliefsaround death and dying?
6. 6. What are your culture’s educationand occupational statuswithin the family unit?
7. 7. What are your culture’s preferredcommunicationmethods(verbal and nonverbal)?
8. 8. Additional question:
9. 9. Additional question:
10. 10. Additional question:
HLT324 week 3 Assignment
Details:
Examine the high-risk nutritional behaviors associated with different cultures. Identify the historical perspectives,
belief systems, and other factors associated with these high-risk nutritional behaviors for each culture. Write a 1,500-
3,000 word paper on your findings in which you accomplish the following:
1. Summarize the high risk-nutritional behaviors practiced among 10 different cultures.
2. Discuss the historical perspectives and belief systems of these cultures that influence the high-risk
nutritional behaviors.
3. Explore additional influencing factors on high-risk behaviors for each culture. These may include, but are not
limited to (a) education, (b) family roles, (c) spiritual beliefs, (d) health care practices, and (e) drug and alcohol use.
This paper requires minimum of six outside resources in addition to the textbook, properly documented using APA
guidelines.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student
Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
HLT324 week 4 Assignment
Details:
Allied health professionals are confronted with different death and dying practices. An effective allied health
professional recognizes the importance of understanding different cultural practices, and learns how to evaluate the
death, dying, and spiritual beliefs and practices across the cultures.

5. Read the two specified case histories and choose one for this assignment.
Chapter 4, “Stories of Abby: An Ojibwa Journey” and Chapter 14, “Stories of Shanti: Culture and Karma,” by Gelfland,
Raspa, and Sherylyn, from End-of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005), available in the GCU
Library:
http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/grandcanyon/Doc?id=10265487
Identify your role as a health care professional in supporting Abby or Shanti’s dying rituals, and in creating strategies
for displaying respect while still providing quality care. Integrate your strategies as you develop a care plan describing
how you would approach the situation and care for the patient. Review the “Care Plan” template prior to beginning.
Include the following in your care plan:
Communication: family and patient
Treatment options that align with the specific culture
Education: family and patient
Family roles in the process
Spiritual beliefs
Barriers
Cultural responses
Any additional components that you feel would need to be addressed (from your perspective as a health care
professional)
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student
Success Center. An abstract is not required.
You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Care Plan
HLT-324V: Transcultural Health Care
Patient’s Name:____________________________________________________ Date:
________________________________________
Patient’s
Diagnosis:_____________________________________________________________________________________
______
Problems/Needs
(Include date.)
GoalsInterventions/ActionsDiscipline/PersonResponsible
Outcome/Comments
(Initialanddate.)
HLT324 week 5 Assignment
Details:
Research different popular nontraditional health care practices. Write a 1,000-1,200 word paper exploring
nontraditional health care practices and include the following:
1. Describe nontraditional health care practices in different cultures. Compare at least three cultures.
2. Explain how these practices affect wellness and prevention in different cultures.
3. Identify the nontraditional health care options in your areas, and identify the number of people choosing to
use them over traditional medical practices. Propose reasons why the number of people using nontraditional health
care options is rising.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student
Success Center. An abstract is not required.

6. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
HLT324 week 5 quiz
Which culture uses dry wood, plant roots, sida leaves, and herbs to treat diarrhea in children?
Hindu
Hmong
German
Which culture uses a traditional medical care system called hanbang, which focus on acupuncture, herbal medicines,
and moxibustion therapy?
Korean
Arab
Amish
Which culture practices t’ai chi?
Polish
Cuban
Chinese
Which culture uses Morita therapy?
Japanese
Mexican
Puerto Rican
Which culture uses the root work system to identify and cure illnesses?
African American
German
Haitian
What culture uses teas with honey and spirits to “sweat out” a cold?
German
Polish
Filipino
As a health care provider, in which culture do you need to be aware of the hot and cold theory of disease when
prescribing treatment and educating patients?
African American
Arab
Mexican
A strong belief in folk medicine is a traditional part of which culture?
Appalachian
African American
German
Which culture believed that drinking a mixture of an alcoholic drink and fish blood could cure alcoholism?
African American
Japanese
Haitian

7. Filipino
Which culture has stores called botanicas, which sell a variety of herbs, ointment, oils, and powders that relieve
disease and bring luck?
Cuban
Polish
German