| Learning Objective #1: Identify nursing strategies to provide culturally component health care to the Old-Order Amish | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Apply Giger and Davidhizer's cultural phenoma when caring for diverse populations including the Old-Order Amish |
This presentation will examine common cultural aspects of the Old Order Amish living in America. Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Assessment Model will be used as the framework to analyze their six cultural phenoma. The six cultural phenoma including communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations will be applied to the Old Order Amish life ways.
Particular healthcare practices of this sequestered population will be assessed. Areas to be reviewed will include providing nursing care for individuals who are: living with a chronic illness or disabilities, receiving treatment for cancer, coping with the death and dying process, and receiving care for mental illness or substance abuse. Examples of modifications in ways of presenting and providing nursing care that is culturally sensitive will be introduced.
The Amish spiritual belief, “in the world, but not of the world” will be analyzed in relationship to providing culturally component care. Particular attention will be given to the rising cost of healthcare, technology, formal education, employment outside the family farm, role of lay midwives, community healers, commonly used herbs and other alternative therapies.
Information gleaned from working with the Amish will be used to generalize to other to other minority groups nurses frequently encounter. The concept of what care means and the qualities of a ”good nurse” to this cultural community will be analyzed.
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