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

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ, USA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.69/6; 610.696
• Soggetto topico: Transcultural medical care; Physician and patient; Medical personnel - Training of
• Altri autori: HarkLisa DeLisserHorace MorrisonGail
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Achieving cultural competency
• ISBN: 1-4443-6009-4; 1-282-13957-6; 9786612139574; 1-4443-1168-9; 1-4443-1167-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825509303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II