Module 6 Assignment (N490 Issues and Trends in Professional Nursing Assignments)

Assignment:

Expanding Cultural Knowledge

Create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Use clear headings that allow your professor to know which bullet you are addressing on the slides in your presentation. Support your content with at least three (3) sources using APA citations throughout your presentation. Make sure to cite the sources using the APA writing style for the presentation. Include a slide for your references at the end. Follow best practices for PowerPoint presentations related to text size, color, images, effects, wordiness, and multimedia enhancements. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Pick a cultural group (different from yours) that you commonly care for at work. Research the answers to the following…

Health Beliefs and Practices

Family patterns

Communication style

Space orientation and Time orientation

Nutritional Patterns

Pain Responses

Childbirth and perinatal care

Death and Dying

Spirituality, religion, and faith (include holy days)

Prayer and meditation

What knowledge did you gain about this group that you were not aware of?

How will this knowledge change the way you care for this cultural group?

Title Slide (1 slide)

Objective Slide (1 slide)

Health Beliefs and Practices (1-2 slide)

Family patterns (1-2 slide)

Communication style (1-2 slide)

Space orientation and Time orientation (1-2 slide)

Nutritional Patterns (1-2 slide)

Pain Responses (1-2 slide)

Childbirth and perinatal care (1-2 slide)

Death and Dying (1-2 slide)

Spirituality, religion, and faith (include holy days) (1-2 slide)

Prayer and meditation (1-2 slide)

What knowledge did you gain about this group that you were not aware of? (1-2 slide)

How will this knowledge change the way you care for this cultural group? (1-2 slide)

References (1 slide)

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 15-27 slides

Structure: Include a title slide, objective slide, content slides, reference slide in APA format.

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of three (3) scholarly sources are required for this assignment.

Rubric: This assignment uses a rubric for scoring. Please review it as part of your assignment preparation and again prior to submission to ensure you have addressed its criteria at the highest level.

Format: Save your assignment as a Microsoft PPT document (.pptx) or a PDF document (.pdf)

File name: Name your saved file according to your first initial, last name, and the assignment number (for example, “RHall Assignment 1.docx”)

<pclass=”msonormal”>N490 Issues and Trends in Professional Nursing</pclass=”msonormal”>

 

 

MORE INFO 

Expanding Cultural Knowledge

Introduction

In a world that’s constantly changing, it can be hard to keep up with the latest trends. But if you’re willing to start from scratch, there are plenty of ways to expand your cultural knowledge. Here are five ways I’ve expanded my cultural knowledge:

New food

Eating is one of the simplest ways to learn about new cultures. It’s not just about what you eat, but also how it is prepared and served. For example, if you have never had sushi before and are trying it out at a restaurant in Japan (or anywhere else), this will give you an idea of what they are like. If they serve their food on rice instead of pasta or bread then that will show you some other things about their culture as well!

The history of food can tell us a lot about a culture because many foods have been around for a very long time — thousands or even millions of years! That’s why those who first discovered these foods often marked them with symbols or left behind written records describing them so other people could understand better without having seen them themselves first hand like we did today when we ate something entirely new like curry chicken curry curry chicken curry curry chicken curry curry chicken curry chicken kebab kebab kebab kebab

New languages

Learning a new language is the best way to expand your cultural knowledge.

• You can take classes or use apps that teach you the basics of a foreign language.

• There are also books and other media in many languages, such as movies and music.

• If you find yourself traveling through different regions of the world where people speak a different language than yours, try talking with them about their culture!

New traditions

New traditions can be fun, challenging and a way to bond with your family. New traditions can be a way to bond with your friends and community as well.

New traditions are often bizarre or silly, but they also serve an important purpose in developing cultural knowledge that helps us understand our own culture better.

New perspectives on history

The knowledge you gain from exploring the world and its history will help you to see the world in a new light. You may discover that your own perspective on history has been limited by what you were taught or told as a child, and now that it’s been expanded, your understanding of yourself and others can change too.

For example, when I was growing up in France during World War II (1940-1945), my parents told me stories about how they had survived this time period by hiding out in their house during bombings by Nazi planes—but after reading about World War II through an international lens, I realized that these stories weren’t quite accurate. Yes they hid out from bombs; however they also actively participated in helping Jewish people escape persecution at home through smuggling them out of Europe into Switzerland where they could apply for visas before leaving again later on via boat across the Atlantic Ocean!

New art

There’s a new art movement coming up, and it’s called “aestheticism.” It’s pretty much exactly what the name says: a new style of art that uses aesthetics to express ideas or feelings. Aesthetics is based on the idea that “what you feel is more important than what you see,” which means that if you’re looking at something and thinking about how beautiful it is or how sad it makes you feel, then your feelings about that thing are valid; but if someone else tells you this same thing without being able to see how emotional they’re making themselves look when saying it (or how beautiful), then their opinion doesn’t matter as much as yours would be worth listening too. And since aestheticism has been around since ancient Greece (and especially Rome), people have been using their own experience with beauty in order to understand other cultures better since then too!

There are many different kinds of aesthetics practiced across cultures today: some focus on color while others consider texture more important; some prefer symmetry over asymmetry; still others focus only on line work instead of shape alone…you get my point! All these differences can help us understand each other better by giving us insight into our own cultural backgrounds–and vice versa because each person brings something unique into our lives through their own experiences growing up here first before coming back home again later down south where we live now.”

New ways of thinking about the world

• New ways of thinking about the world

If you’re looking for a way to expand your cultural knowledge, look no further than these seven ways that culture can expand your perspective on history.

• New perspectives on history

History can be hard to learn, but it’s also one of the most important things we have as humans. If you’re learning about how humankind has evolved and changed over time, this is a great way to do so while also experiencing new cultures firsthand—and it will help you appreciate all the stories behind them too!

• New art forms and styles

Takeaway:

The takeaway is that it’s important to learn about other cultures and how they’re different from your own. You can do this by traveling, reading books about other countries, watching movies with non-white characters (or ones that show diversity in general), talking with friends who have lived abroad, listening to music from other places around the world—the list goes on!

Once you’ve started learning about other cultures and their traditions, it’s time to make them a habit. Find ways that you can incorporate this knowledge into your everyday life so that when people ask where you come from or what country you’re from for example, instead of saying “I’m American,” say something like “my family is originally from Spain” or “my grandparents were born in Germany.”

Conclusion

We hope you’ve enjoyed this tour of what the world has to offer us. We know that coming from a place of open hearts, minds and spirits is the best way to live in the world. But it takes work—and it takes time!