Description
Cultural Reflection Paper
Assignment
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to help the student comprehend the necessity of cultural competence, evaluate ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds, and apply principles learned into a personal, professional growth plan.
Culturally competent health professionals need to be aware of their own cultural values and norms, and how their value orientation might affect their practice and relationships with other colleagues from a different ethnic group.
It is important for future Health professionals to explore their own-cultural identity before interviewing any other Health professional.
Sensitivity to differences in ethnic identity between Health professionals and Community members will enhance the professional relationship.
Requirements
This assignment has three parts (A, B, C). Please follow the instructions carefully.
Part A. Conduct a self-assessment exercise by responding to the following questions (MAXIMUM 1 Page).
In your family, what were the implicit and explicit messages communicated about your cultural heritage? (CUBAN)
How were ethnic traits and characteristics among the family expressed or demonstrated? Were any suppressed, concealed or disapproved of?
Who in your family, and what kind of family experience, influenced your sense of ethnic identity?
Where did you grow up and what other ethnic groups resided there?
What was the first experience of feeling ethnically different? (“white” or person of “color”).
How do you think your cultural identity might affect your future professional practice with other ethnic minorities?
Part B: Interview with an Ethnic Minority Health Professional
Please conduct an interview with a minority health professional. The selected person can also be a fellow student. You may use the following questions as an interview guide.
What were important social, cultural, familiar and political issues that influenced your personal decision to become a health professional?
What barriers did you encounter as an ethnic minority professional due to racial, cultural, social, political, class or gender issues?
How did you overcome these barriers in pursuing your profession?
Are you satisfied with your profession? What do you like most and least about your work as a Health professional?
What are some of the racial and cultural issues that arise in your work with interaction with your own ethnic group – and with other ethnic groups?
What would you say are some of the racial and cultural issues to be aware of in working with someone from a different cultural group?
What does it mean to you that a health professional is culturally competent in his/her work?
Do you feel you are culturally competent to work with diverse people you encounter? Why? Why not?
What advice would you give another ethnic minority individual who wants to pursue the health profession?
Part C: Use the information from your self-assessment and interview to thoughtfully answer the following questions.
Describe cultural competency and cultural humility and what this means in the public health workforce. Please describe three reasons why these skills are important.
Describe how cultural factors may affect public health.
Imagine you are designing a course for public health professionals. What three elements would you incorporate into your teaching plan to ensure cultural competency and cultural humility in your workforce. How might this change for different populations in different locations? Be specific.
Additional considerations:
This assignment will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading rubric.
Create your paper using Microsoft Word.
Interview Ethnic Minority Health Professional, asking the following questions:
Complete the Cultural Reflection Action Paper. Please refer to the Grading Rubric for this assignment to see what information needs to be included in your paper. Your paper must include information obtained from both the ethnic minority health professional interview and your self-assessment as you address the points in the rubric.
Your paper should be at no less than 3 pages and no more than 7 pages long, not including the title page and reference page. BE CONCISE.
