Module 3 Learning Goal Analysis

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This final post is to reflect on the three Learning Goals I set for myself earlier in the semester. Those three were:
1. Identify strategies to be culturally sensitive and competent with diverse patients.
2. Expand my knowledge of various minority cultures & their healthcare beliefs- Hmong, Latino.
3. Identify strategies to communicate with diverse patients and ensure informed consent and understanding.

Goal number two was the easiest to achieve because I read a book about when Hmong culture clashed with Western medicine: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. I also learned about numerous other demographics from the weekly coursework in this class: African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Caucasian, LGBT community
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In Module 4 I found a set of standards of culturally competency in my field and compared them to another set of standards- CLAS. The resource I found related to my field was from The Journal of the American Dietetic Association (now the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) published “Moving Cultural Competency from Abstract to Act” in 2010. The article explained why cultural competency is so important, defined it, and provided numerous cultural competency models that a health care provider may use: ETHICS (explain, treatment, healers, negotiation, intervention, and collaboration), BATHE (background, affect, trouble, and handle), LEARN (listen, explain, acknowledge, recommend treatment, and negotiate), and GREET (generation, reason, extended family, ethnic behavior, and time living in the US). Each model goes into detail and sites explains for how to follow the model for success. I find these extremely helpful. The CLAS Standards are 15 guiding principles for cultural competence which are divided into categories: principle standard, governance, leadership, and workforce, communication and language assistance, and engagement, continuous improvement, and