Multi-culture for Postpartum Maternal Care

Abstract

Culture is interconnected to health beginning from personal selfcare, beliefs, and health practices. Culture is the patterns of behavioral responses that have been continuously developed over time. In health care in postpartum period for mothers with multi-culture, It is essential as well as challenging for nurses to care for mothers with different beliefs, values, customs, and traditions. Nurses are required to be equipped with knowledge, understanding, and beliefs of illness of clients from different cultures. This will providers to reach clients and successfully deliver successful postpartum maternal health care. Care providers must possess potentials in the following: 1) cultural sensitivity and awareness, 2) cultural knowledge, 3) cultural communication skills, 4) abilities to encounter and provide nursing intervention, and 5) abilities to protect of persons’ rights postpartum mothers. Nurses should make their nursing interventions in health care that responds individuals with differences in values, beliefs, lifestyles of diverse cultures. Such actions will ultimately respond to needs and effectively support health behaviors among postpartum mothers.