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1) identify the cultural/ethnic you have selected.
2)summarize significant findings about this group that inform attitudes and preferences around end-of-life care (e,g., inform consent,
life support, advance directives, communication styles, and/or decision making, etc.), and cite your sources of information.
3) what are the challenges in ensuring that patients (or their surrogates) understand their rights and that their consent is truly
informed?
4) what are the legal/ethical implications of these challenges for administrators? how can they help prevent cultural misunderstandings or discrimination, and address problems when they do they arise.

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palliative care for Latino patients and their families: "whenever we prayed, she wept" Alexander Smith, Rebecca Sudore, Eliseo Perez-Stable 2009

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Palliative Care for Latino Patients and Their Families are examined. The significant findings about this groups attitudes and preferences around the end of life care are determined.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782583/

1) identify the cultural/ethnic you have selected.

The group (you) chose for this assignment is comprised of the largest ethnic minority group within the U.S. as Latinos currently account for 15% of the US population, and are projected to account for 30% by the year 2050. This population is represented by diverse group of different national origins that have been cultivated over 500 years of population and cultural admixture of the indigenous peoples, the European colonialists and immigrants, as well as slavery involving Africans. Despite the many different national origins that Latinos hail from, they share a commonality through language that is Spanish as well as similar cultural attributes.

2)summarize significant findings about this group that inform Latino Patients attitudes and preferences around end-of-life care (e,g., inform consent, life support, advance directives, communication styles, and/or decision making, etc.), and cite your sources of information.

Significant findings by research journals have discovered that patients from Latin America are that patients defer to physicians because of a respect for authority, which emanates from authoritarian dictatorships in many Latin American countries in the past. Therefore, many Latinos who emigrate from Latin America are accustom to ...

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