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Discuss identified health care needs and concerns specific to your chosen population, including predispositions toward any diseases or health care issues.

Background and Instructions
Cultural competency is a fundamental process that nurses use to gather information, assess needs, and plan actions. For this assignment, you will build upon some of your previous coursework by designing an in-service program for nurses and other health care workers, in the form a PowerPoint presentation and present it your fellow learners using Kaltura Media or similar software.
The in-service program will focus on the provision of culturally competent health care for your chosen population. The purpose of this assignment is to design a professional development in-service program for nurses and other health care workers. The program will focus on the provision of culturally competent health care, based on the identified health care need for your chosen population. Your professional development program will discuss three parts:

Part 1 – Provides a review and summary of your chosen cultural population group.
Part 2 – Applies cultural competence framework as a framework for your in-service presentation for nurses and other health care workers.
Part 3 – Provides plan for implementation of a cultural competence program for nurses and other health care workers.

For this assignment, create a PowerPoint presentation (not more than seven slides) that includes the three parts given below.
Part 1: Overview and Cultural Background of Population Group
In this part:

Examine your chosen cultural population group, including its key characteristics, language, cultural traditions, beliefs and values, and attitudes toward health care. This section of your assignment should emphasize the importance of cultural competence for this particular population.
Discuss identified health care needs and concerns specific to your chosen population, including predispositions toward any diseases or health care issues.
Define the health care need or concern you have chosen to base your professional development program on, and discuss the implications of each area to this need.

Part 2: Application of Cultural Competence Framework
In this part:

Explain how you will use a culturally competent framework for your professional development program.
Evaluate how the identified health care need is being met by current health care system.
Assess what cultural and traditional needs are not currently being met by the health care system.
Assess how culturally competent communication and collaboration can be promoted among health care workers.

Part 3: Plan for Implementation of Cultural Diversity and Inclusion In-Service Presentation
In this part:

Discuss how you would implement this professional development program, including a time frame.
Identify resources needed, including personnel if needed.
Analyze influences of support and challenges for implementation of this program in this practice setting.
Strategize how you can overcome obstacles and challenges and maximize strengths and opportunities.
Discuss a plan for evaluation of your program.