Topic: African American Culture
Write a 3 to 5-page paper (NOT including the title page and
references), utilizing at least 5 of the below criteria:
• What are the prevalent healthcare beliefs and needs of African
American culture?
• How does the African American cultures lifestyle affect their health?
• How do your African American cultural healthcare beliefs
compare to the healthcare beliefs of this culture?
• Describe the African American cultural and communication
considerations that should be taken when caring for individuals from this
culture.
• What health disparities should be considered for the African
American culture related to communication?
• How does this African American culture communicate with
their healthcare providers and does this impact their care?
• Utilize Madeline Leininger’s Theory of Culture of Care and
relate this back to the African American culture and communication.
• Compare your personal culture and communication style,
with your assigned culture.
The
paper must be written in current APA format. In your paper, address the
following components:
Introduction and Background:
• Introduction
-State the topics and subtopics
-Obtain the reader’s interest
• Background
-Give a synopsis of your assigned
culture, i.e., origins of culture, essentials about their way of life, and
education, etc.
Body of the Paper (Choose at least 5 points to
discuss):
• What are the prevalent healthcare beliefs and needs of the
African American culture?
• How does the African American cultures lifestyle affect
their health?
• Describe cultural and communication considerations that
should be taken when caring for individuals from this culture.
• What health disparities should be considered for the African
American culture related to communication?
• How does the African culture communicate with their
healthcare providers and does this impact their care?
• Utilize Madeline Leininger’s Theory of Culture of Care and
relate this back to the African American culture and communication.
Conclusion:
• Summary of the topic without including new information
included
• Concluding ideas are provided and leave an impact on the
reader
Sources:
• Include a minimum of three scholarly/professional
peer-reviewed references when writing this paper.
•
References used in this paper should be no more than five years old.
Exceptions include seminal works, such as original publications by nurse
theorists (classic source).
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