Cultural Competence : Nursing Outline
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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.
- Cultural awareness
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