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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825509303321

Titolo

Achieving cultural competency [[electronic resource] ] : a case-based approach to training health professionals / / editors-in-chief, Lisa Hark, Horace DeLisser ; senior editor, Gail Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ, USA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

1-4443-6009-4

1-282-13957-6

9786612139574

1-4443-1168-9

1-4443-1167-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HarkLisa

DeLisserHorace

MorrisonGail

Disciplina

610.69/6

610.696

Soggetti

Transcultural medical care

Physician and patient

Medical personnel - Training of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Achieving Cultural Competency; Contents; Contributors; CME Disclosure Information; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Tools to Assess Cultural Competency Training (TACCT); Case 1 Ruth Franklin: A 40-year-old African American woman with heart failure; Case 2 Carl Jones: A 48-year-old homeless Caucasian man with chest pain and lung cancer; Case 3 Maria Morales: A 57-year-old Mexican woman with type 2 diabetes; Case 4 Maya Mohammed: A 15-year-old Arab American teenager with leukemia; Case 5 Jon Le: A 48-year-old Korean man with cerebral hemorrhage

Case 6 Nadia Rosenberg: A 53-year-old Russian woman with drug-resistant tuberculosisCase 7 Isabel Delgado: A 47-year-old Dominican woman with hypertension; Case 8 George Dennis: A 35-year-old



African American man with AIDS; Case 9 Mary Jones: A 2-year-old Caucasian girl with delayed speech development; Case 10 Priya Krishnamurthy: A 73-year-old South Asian Indian woman with a stroke; Case 11 Carlos Cruz: A 34-year-old Mexican man with sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome; Case 12 Denise Smith: A 41-year-old Caucasian woman with asthma

Case 13 Mae Ling Chung: A 22-year-old Chinese woman in an arranged marriageCase 14 Earl Collins: A 73-year-old African American man with lung cancer; Case 15 Irma Matos: A 66-year-old Ecuadorian woman with type 2 diabetes and hypertension; Case 16 Eileen Clark: An 82-year-old African American woman with a stroke; Case 17 Leslie O'Malley: A 66-year-old Irish American man with breast cancer; Case 18 Juana Caban: A 21-year-old Puerto Rican woman who is pregnant and HIV-positive; Case 19 Alice Gregory: A 71-year-old African American woman with aortic stenosis

Case 20 Sunil Guha: A 32-year-old South Asian Indian man with metabolic syndromeCase 21 Pepper Hawthorne: A 19-year-old Caucasian woman with a stroke; Case 22 Alika Nkuutu: A 24-year-old African woman with sickle cell disease; Case 23 Miguel Cortez: A 9-year-old Mexican boy with asthma; Case 24 Naomi Fulton: A 49-year-old African American woman with metabolic syndrome; Case 25 Bobby Napier: A 68-year-old Caucasian Appalachian man with type 2 diabetes; Appendix 1: Positioning the Interpreter; Appendix 2: Kleinman's Explanatory Model of Illness; Multiple Choice Questions; Answers; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Achieving Cultural Competency: A Case-Based Approach to Training Health Professionals provides the necessary tools to meet the ever-growing need for culturally competent practitioners and trainees. Twenty-five self-study cases cover a variety of medical topics, including cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurology, oncology, hematology, immunology, and pediatric disorders. Actual scenarios that occurred in clinical settings help the user gain direct insight into the realities of practice today. Cultural factors covered within the cases include cultural diversity plus gender, language, folk bel