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CULTURAL COMPETENCY CASE STUDY: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND MENINGITIS

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often throws in situations that the nursing professional, counselor, or physician was not prepared for. One of those very real issues is the topic of cultural practices. What many health  care professionals are finding these days is a resistance to treatment, outreach programs, and diagnosis because of perceived bias on behalf of the health care professional. What, then, can the  public health professional do to implement a program that will be culturally unbiased, yet will remain accessible and acceptable to an ethnic segment of society? Consider that the average college  campus is a microcosm, a tiny replica, of society at large. Within this small academic community there are minority groups which must be reached in much the same way as  those minority groups in the larger community. Given this, then, the nursing staff of the college will have their work cut out for them. First, it must be stated that  the incoming freshman to any university are wild. Most of them are overwhelmed with the enormous amount of freedom that they now are experiencing. Coupled with the natural tendency to  take unwarranted risks, then this equates into a segment of the collegiate population which will more than likely resist health education, let alone outreach programs. After all, they are invincible,  right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segment of the college population. However,  since it is a likelihood that a percentage of them every year will end up with meningitis and given that it is preventable, the health care professionals will need some  way in which to reach the target audience. This typical freshman attitude will be magnified as well when culture comes into the picture, as well, making the job just that