Because the United States is continuously becoming multicultural country, it important for nurses to be culturally competent, understand variables of practices in patient's health care, and accept each person as an individual. To provide an effective, holistic, individualized care to patients nurses should have “an honest desire to disregard personal biases and to treat every person with respect.“ In day-to-day practices it is challenging to provide appropriate nursing care for patients from many different cultures. Prejudice, biases, stereotyping and ignoring the differences are the barriers to the good verbal and non-verbal communication between patients and nurses, to accommodating the patient's needs. To be culturally competent and more
