A cultural encounter is the act of directly interacting with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds (Honner & Hoppi, 2004). There are two goals of cultural encounters. One goal is to generate a wide variety of responses to promote verbal and nonverbal communication accurately and appropriately in each culturally different context. The second goal is to continuously interact with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds which assists in validating, modifying existing values, beliefs, and practices about a cultural group. The outcome would be the provision of healthcare to the patient based on cultural desire, cultural awareness, cultural skill, and cultural knowledge (Campinha-Bacote, 2011). The DNP student remembers cultural competence
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Since marime status is spread from object to object through contact, all upper-body clothes are washed separately from lower body clothing, and washed in separate containers, which are reserved exclusively for those clothes. Women 's clothes, because of women 's periodic marime status (due to menstruation), are washed separately, as are children 's clothes. An apron, interestingly, may be washed with upper body clothing because of its role in cleanliness and food preparation. Also, all cookware and tableware, since it comes into contact with food, is washed in its own container. Marime status is spread through contact, but contact is not limited to physical contact. According to Miller, actions such as yawning or looking sleepy -"because 'it means you 're thinking about going to bed '"- or discussion of childbirth at the table are taboo (Larkin, 1998).
(Campinha-Bacote, 2011), indicates the practice of cultural competency skills allows the individualization of care provided to patients, based on cultural group and not stereo-typing. Campinha-Bacote also stresses that a patient-centered and culturally competent approach to effectively resolving cultural conflicts should not result in a “win or lose” situation for either the patient or nurse; but rather result in a “win-lose/win-lose” situation in which values of the nurse and patient are
Since marime status is spread from object to object through contact, all upper-body clothes are washed separately from lower body clothing, and washed in separate containers, which are reserved exclusively for those clothes. Women 's clothes, because of women 's periodic marime status (due to menstruation), are washed separately, as are children 's clothes. An apron, interestingly, may be washed with upper body clothing because of its role in cleanliness and food preparation. Also, all cookware and tableware, since it comes into contact with food, is washed in its own container. Marime status is spread through contact, but contact is not limited to physical contact. According to Miller, actions such as yawning or looking sleepy -"because 'it means you 're thinking about going to bed '"- or discussion of childbirth at the table are taboo (Larkin, 1998).
(Campinha-Bacote, 2011), indicates the practice of cultural competency skills allows the individualization of care provided to patients, based on cultural group and not stereo-typing. Campinha-Bacote also stresses that a patient-centered and culturally competent approach to effectively resolving cultural conflicts should not result in a “win or lose” situation for either the patient or nurse; but rather result in a “win-lose/win-lose” situation in which values of the nurse and patient are