Cultural competence

The important of cultural competence and cultural diversity As we all know the United State is a country that have many race, religions, and cultures. The increasing of diversity in the United state bring lots of opportunities, and challenges for health care provides, and the health care system. A cultural compliance health care system can help the elimination of racial, and stereotypes disparities. Another big affect on the health care system is language barriers there is millions of…

ethnicity, cultural background, or religion. However, we are all human. We all deserve to be treated equally. Throughout the world, different cultures exist, and with the population increasing, so are many cultural groups. It is important to understand and be aware of the cultural differences and similarities that exist. There is not one single culture that is perhaps “better” than the other. In life, there are cultural situations and problems that exist. There are ways to develop cultural…

educators with cultural competence, which will assist with embracing and embedding it in your work. Cultural competence is the way individuals and services effectively and efficiently support, promote and embrace cultural differences. It is the ability to understand and communicate with and effectively interact with people across many cultures. Cultural competence is something you work towards, there is no end point as it is an ongoing learning and reflective process. In order to embrace…

Culturally and competence care According to the video, Cultural competence care is complex integration of knowledge, attitude and skills that enhance cross cultural communication and appropriate and effective interaction. Cultural competence is very important to the nurse’s care concerning the treatment given to their patients. It enables the nurses to understand the history and the background belief of the patient. Most of the patient has their cultural influences that may affect their…

Cultural competence is defined in the Siegen’s Medical Dictionary as the ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with persons from cultures and/or belief systems other than one’s own, based on various factors (“cultural competence”). This aptitude and mindset is being sought after by today’s employers more often than before, especially in the career field of my choice, Nursing. As the world becomes smaller and people and civilizations become more easily accessible, majority of all…

English or very limited who came to US for many different reasons. However, they have equal right to receive good quality of healthcare with their cultural respect. To provide quality of care and cultural respect, staffs need to have cultural competence. The first intervention to have cultural competence is cultural awareness self- assessment of one’s cultural background and differences.…

Creating standards for care planning of unique populations, such as, the LGBT community and implementing mandatory cultural competency training for healthcare professionals across the continuum who interact with all Alzheimer’s patients, their families, and caretakers is necessary. Without these efforts, we are not employing best practice, challenge institutional oppression…

The initial idea that came to my mind when I thought of cultural competence was my ability to distinguish the different dietary needs of different groups of people based on religion, personal preference, and special needs. Little did I know that the topic of cultural competence is much broader and goes much deeper than just the diets of my patients. In fact, I came to realize, that I had indeed been practicing cultural competence in the workplace without even realizing it; however, not as…

demographic cultural shift in America. Currently there are five states that are now minority-majority. Those states are Hawaii, Washington D.C. Texas, California, and New Mexico (Picchi, 2015). I reside in the state of California. The minority-majority population in California is 61.5% (Picchi, 2015). As a future counselor, the minority demographic changes are important to be aware of. The Latino/Hispanic population in California is 14.99 million as of July 01,2014 (LA Times, 2015).…

Cultural competence is defined in many ways, but it all has one great positive outlook that you have an understanding of other culture not just yours an understanding of their background and why they do certain things and how things are done. Music is another language to people, it gives you an outlet to express yourself and what you have been threw. Being culturally competent you can understand why they feel that way or what gives them that view that it is or is not. The Message by Grand…