CRITICAL INCIDENT

 Culture and Diversity in Nursing Practice Critical Incident Assignment 20 % of grade Purpose: To identify cultural miscommunication that leads to poor patient outcomes. This assignment uses critical incidents to delineate a situation that could lead to a cultural misunderstanding. It consists of a short vignette that is limited to a very short time period and focuses on a specific event or incident. Most critical incidents are open ended, leaving the reader to pose a solution. In this assignment, the student is asked to choose one of four possible explanations for the events that transpired that is the best answer. Documentation is required to support the cultural behavior. The other three explanations will additionally be reviewed for being a possible or wrong answer based on cultural / nursing documentation. All four explanations require documentation.