Culture Awareness With End-of-Life Issues: Death, Dying, and Bereavement

Culture Awareness With End-of-Life Issues: Death, Dying, and Bereavement

Purpose

• Describe cultural beliefs, customs, and traditions related to death and dying in diverse cultural groups.
• Discuss values associated with verbal and nonverbal communication in selected cultures.
• Incorporate cultural beliefs, customs, traditions, values, and practices into the healthcare, given an involvement in the end-of-life decisions.
• Look at cross-cultural concepts of grief and mourning that can describe the thoughts, emotions, interpersonal interactions, myths, and rituals that follow significant deaths in other cultures.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO 1: Provide nursing care to patients and their families in critical and emergent care settings based on theories and principles of nursing and related disciplines.
CO 3: Demonstrate effective therapeutic communication and relationship skills in providing care to patients and families in critical-care and emergent care settings.
CO 4: Demonstrate effective clinical decision making based on critical thinking skills and legal, ethical, and professional standards and principles when caring for patients and families in critical-care and emergent care settings.

Due Dates

Refer to the Course Calendar for the assignment’s due date.

Total Points Possible: 100

Requirements

1. As a group, choose a culture that is different from your own (pick two to three). The following is a sample of cultures, but you may choose a culture not listed.

Perform a review of literature, researching books, articles, websites, or other reputable sources, and provide an evidence-based paper in APA format. The paper and presentation should include the followin