Strategies for Encouraging Culturally Competent Care of Native Americans

28. And in Your Own Experience, What Strategies Would You Recommend Encouraging Culturally Competent Care Of Native Americans?

Since mortality rates for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) patients tend to increase the emphasis should be placed on the importance of cultural competence when taking care of these patients. The primary care providers of these patients need to adopt preventive measures. Early interventions include referrals for nutritionists, checking blood sugar levels, as well as the early detection of cancer and chronic uncontrolled hypertension kidney disease (CVDs) and other diseases (Nahian and Jouk 2022). The interaction between physicians and patients are enhanced when diversity and multi-culturalism are acknowledged and their reputation as compassionate professionals on the overall is enhanced. Each case is categorized in order of age, then gender, and finally by race. Doctors learn during their time as medical students. These specifics are vital in describing who the patient has become and the values they represent. Each patient comes before the physician with an individual background and the doctor needs to develop a treatment plan that is customized according to the particulars of the patient. but, this is not an accepted method in the literature (Nahian and Jouk 2022). The science behind treating all patients is similar because everyone is part of the same species and therefore treatment plans are not always clear every day. This is especially the case in general health care, where there are more patients than other areas which makes it easy to doctors to treat the symptoms instead of looking at the entire patient. Cont…