Cultural competence

The EYLF describes cultural competence as: ‘much more than awareness of cultural differences. It is the ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across culture.’ As an educator cultural competence can be achieved by developing educational programs that are reflective of the services values, beliefs and philosophy, and embraces the principles of equality, diversity, inclusion and fairness. (Early Years Learning and development Framework Practice Guide Four:…

Cultural competency is the knowledge of how to correctly act and treat people of different social variables. In order to maintain a peaceful environment in the healthcare industry, all professionals should be educated on how to interact with other healthcare professionals and patients of different backgrounds. This experience will allow healthcare professionals to treat others with respect and dignity. Cultural competence can be an advantage and will decrease the possibility of unprofessional…

Cultural Competent Nursing Care Sharon Colton South University Cultural Competent Nursing Care Cultural competent nursing care is the expectation in today’s society. As nurses, we need to be mindful of different cultures and their healthcare beliefs. We need to be able to adapt to our patient’s cultural needs in order to provide holistic care to our patients and their families. “Health-care providers must recognize, respect, and integrate clients ' cultural beliefs and practices into…

In the changing demographics the significance of cultural competence and diversity in health care settings the growing need for cultural transformation. So that as a cultural transformation leader in the opportunity to influence the lives of millions of people through building relationships, ensuring effective education and reporting, and through promoting a culture of learning. For sustained change to occur, it has to come from the inside out and from the top down (Stockamp, 2004). In…

Hello Laquanda after reviewing our video I leaned what cultural competence is and how it affects others around us. As stated cultural competence is the ability to effectively build such bridges across cultures and to use culturally appropriate helping strategies in all phases of the planned change process. During the beginning of your video, I was under the impression that you were defining cultural sensitivity, which entails social workers to be respectful of differences among people and…

Cultural Competency is a major issue that we face today when dealing with diverse groups and this may be because there are not enough resources to deal with these issues. Latinos most especially is one of the fastest growing groups in the United States today, but these groups are not getting the resources that they need. Some of the issues that these groups face is acculturation, language barrier, parent-adolescent conflict that may lead to the Latino girls committing suicide and maltreatment.…

According to Hook et al. (2013), cultural humility involves working together with clients to determine where the client’s identity traits meet and how that affects therapeutic practices. A culturally humble counselor does not become overly confident, allowing prior experience working with a particular group to overly influence current client therapies and assessments. Developing multicultural counseling competence requires considering multiple factors that influence a person’s life. Factors…

with skills, knowledge, positive attitudes, respect and compassion will qualify a nurse as culturally competent in providing care to people from different background. One concept I will talk about from this week’s readings is the concept of cultural competence care. The goal of every health care professional or nurse is to provide quality patient care to patients. To achieve this goal, it is important for nurses to better understand the culture, social expectation, the language,…

that would lead to an employee’s personal growth such as wellness, interpersonal communications, and technology skills. The exact training offerings would be determined through a needs survey to employees. The Cultural Competency training program would address cultural sensitivity, cultural norms, and diversity…

Although cultural safety and cultural competence are similar in nature, they are not the same. Cultural competence stems from our understanding of different cultures and how they should be treated, while cultural safety goes beyond this scope to include in-depth reflection, practical application and education, and policy transformation in terms of equality of care and access to care, etc. “Cultural safety helps us to understand the limitations of cultural competence…[It] is predicted on…