TITLE:
The Relationship between Academic/Professional Qualification and Longevity of Service Parameters in Trans-Cultural Client Care by Nurses of Fako, SWR, Cameroon
AUTHORS:
Mary Bi Suh Atanga, Roland Acha Achi, John Ngunde Palle
KEYWORDS:
Trans-Cultural Client Care, Academic/Professional Qualification, Longevity, Importance, Preservation, Relationships with Culture Diagnostics, Negotiating, Re-Patterning
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.3 No.3,
March
10,
2016
ABSTRACT:
Every client seeking care comes from a cultural background. Each cultural
background has elements that need to be diagnosed in order to provide care in a
manner that is seriously conflicting with the client’s culture. Sometimes in
the provision of care, conflicting ideas need negotiation and sometimes
re-patterning, but these must be done in an acceptable manner such that the
client is at ease, and so healing is enhanced. For these to occur, knowledge
and qualification of the care provider play a role. At other times, the
longevity of service and knowledge and attitudes either interfere or enhance
the process. Based on these, this study on the relationship between academic/ professional
qualification and longevity of service was conducted to test the presence or
non presence of trans-cultural client care among some nurses and midwives in
Health Care Institutions in Fako Division. The objectives were to sought the importance
and preservation of trans-cultural client care (TCC); find out the
relationship between academic/professional qualification; and relationship
between longevity of service and the identified parameters of culture
diagnostic, negotiating and re-patterning. Stratified samples of nurses/midwives
working in Health Care Institutions in Fako Division, were administered
multiple choice questionnaires, for a period of three weeks. One hundred and
sixty five (165) participants filled the questionnaires and SPSS 16.0 was used
to analyze the data collected. The results revealed high degree of dependence
between the professional qualification (P-value = 0.023), academic
qualification (P-value = 0.001), professional profile (longevity) (P-value =
0.000) of nurses/midwives and trans-cultural client care in healthcare
institutions in Fako Division. These verifications let to the confirmation of
the assumptions of the study. Professional qualification/academic qualification,
and professional profile (longevity), influence trans-cultural client care
among nurses/midwives in health institutions in Fako Division. We recommend
that Health Care Institutions should regularly organize seminars and workshops
on the effective use and application of clients’ culture during care.