Cultural Competence : Nursing Outline

• July 2, 2020
• Tony Guo
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Cultural Competence

• Ability to understand, appreciate,  and work with individuals from cultures other than your own
• Four components
  • Cultural awareness
    • Involves self-awareness for the nurse, examining personal attitudes related to various aspects of culture, to identify possible bias
    • Identify your own cultural background, values, and beliefs, especially as related to health and health care.
  • Cultural knowledge
    • Process of learning key aspects of a group’s culture, especially as it relates to health and health care practices
    • Learn basic general information about predominant cultural groups in your geographic area.
    • Assess patients for presence or absence of cultural traits based on an understanding of generalizations about a cultural group.
    • Do not make assumptions based on cultural background because the degree of acculturation varies among individuals.
  • Cultural skill
    • Ability to collect relevant cultural data
    • Be alert for unexpected responses with patients, especially as related to cultural issues.
  • Cultural encounter
    • Direct cross-cultural interactions between people from culturally diverse backgrounds
    • Create opportunities to interact with predominant cultural groups.