...Cultural Competence Tara Culberson Texas Tech University Healthcare is universal but there are many different views of how healthcare should be administered and given. Different cultures vary in the beliefs surrounding healthcare and the people of those cultures have norms that they believe should be followed when receiving healthcare. Cultural competence can only be administered when the healthcare professionals are educated and value the beliefs of their patients. Joey Guzman is a 19-year-old college student at Tarrant County College who is Hispanic. Both of his parents were born in Mexico and moved to the United States at different periods in their life. Joey’s mom, Sole, has her own views of healthcare and how it should be administered to her and her family. Cultural competence can only occur once healthcare professionals respect and accept cultural differences, and posses different cultural information. Cultural competence is an on-going process and is a learning experience. There should be some things that nurses should be aware of, but cultural competence will gradually be learned as nurses come in contact with different cultures. For example, people of Asian descent belief in acupuncture for healing along with herbal remedies while African Americans also believe in herbal remedies but do not think that acupuncture is a useful measure for healing. The beliefs that Hispanics have surrounding healthcare are very particular and specific and do not really overlap...
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...12/13/13’ Cultural Competence To begin with, in order for people to understand cultural competence, they must know the meaning of culture. What is culture? Culture can be defined as different experiences of people customs, values, beliefs, and languages. It also entails of worldviews, ways of communicating and knowing. Also culture can be classified as race/ethnicity, social class, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender or disability. Cultural of conglomerates can refer to people who are not related by lineage. For example, they are not in the same lineage for organizational culture, disability community culture, and gay culture. Not only that, but culture can mean to the institutions. This can means family, education, government, and religion. This help with economic systems that preserve and shape patterns of thought, behavior, and beliefs. Cultural competence is associated with the ability to talk effectively with people of socio-economic backgrounds. Cultural competence can be associated in the same category of government agencies, non-profit organizations, and human resources that consist of employees work with people of different ethnic/cultural backgrounds. Cultural competence has four components. They are cross-cultural skills, knowledge of different cultural worldviews, awareness of one’s own cultural worldview, and having positive cultural differences. These elements are important because if people develop cultural competence, it can help to understand...
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...Cultural Sensitivity and the Health Practices in Dominican Republic Manoucheka Chery Grand Canyon University: NUR-502 May 7, 2014 Cultural Sensitivity and the Health Practices in Dominican Republic The demographics of the United States is changing to one that is multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual. Culture is a vital component in the health and wellness of individuals. Culture affects individuals' beliefs, definition of health, treatments, and interaction with healthcare providers. These beliefs may affect the patient’s compliance with medication or therapy. In order to address the diverse beliefs of today’s population the advance practice nurse must be culturally competent. Barker and DeNisco (2013) defined cultural competence as a “compilation of the clinical skills and professional behavior of a healthcare provider focused on the cultural values, beliefs, and perceptions of the consumer while both are engaged in the therapeutic relationship” (p.486). According to Higgins and Learn (1999), the Hispanic population includes a diversity of subgroups. Although each subgroup shares a common language, “they differ in traditions and customs” (Higgins & Learn p. 1105). This paper will focus on Hispanics residing in rural Dominican Republican. According to Schumacher (2010), the number of Hispanics immigrating and living in the United States is rapidly increasing. “Between 1990 and 2000, the number of foreign-born Hispanics from the Dominican Republic (DR) in the...
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...Enhancing cultural competence: panacea for all woes. What really helps to enhance cultural competence? Before giving an answer to this so up-to-date question, I'd like to make it clear what cultural competence actually is and why it's so important nowadays. Cultural competence is “the process by which individuals and systems respond respectfully and effectively to people of all cultures, languages, classes, races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other diversity factors in a manner that recognizes, affirms, and values the worth of individuals, families, and communities and protects and preserves the dignity of each.”[1] Linguistic competence is a key component of cultural competence. Whay's the reason for developing cultural competence? Cultural competence is one the main ingredients in closing the disparities gap in health care. It’s the way patients and doctors can come together and talk about health concerns without cultural differences hindering the conversation, but enhancing it. Quite simply, health care services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients can help bring about positive health outcomes. Actually, a really wide range of activities exists to help improve our intercultural communication skills, so I'll set some examples that I like most: Learn a foreign language Use your foreign language in community service Study abroad Take a course in anthropological fieldwork Serve...
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...Cultural competence is a term used to describe a set of skills, principles, and values that acknowledge, respect and work near perfect interactions between the individual and the various cultural and ethnic groups(cite). There are four key components in maintaining a high level of Cultural Competency. Those components are awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills. Awareness. The awareness of one’s own individual biases and reactions to people who are of certain cultures or backgrounds different from one’s origin. The only way to work towards other aspects of Cultural Competency must begin with being aware of one’s internal biases(cite). Attitude. The importance of attitude in cultural competence is separate the difference between of being...
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...Cultural Competence Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion Valsamma Xavi Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V Family and Health Promotion 09-13-2014 In today’s society, nurses interact and care for many individuals from various cultures. Nurses are responsible for understanding and valuing culture and upholding the rights and dignity of each individual. Cultural competence can be defined as “the level of knowledge-based skills required to provide effective clinical care to patients from a particular ethnic or racial group” (Bureau of Health Professions, 2004). Cultural competence requires the nurse to distinguish their own beliefs, in addition to those of the patients and to learn to be sensitive to patient’s cultural needs. Using the heritage assessment tool and interviewing individuals from three different cultural backgrounds we can see how cultural competence can help in health promotion. I was born and raised in India, and lived there for over half my life and then I migrated to the United States. Although we have lived here for over twenty years, many of the traditions which we practiced in India are still practiced within our family today. When I grew up in India, I remember having friends from various religions and different ethnic groups. I remember waking up to the smell of my mother’s tea and the sound of the animals in our farm. My family is a strong Roman Catholic family, and we all prayed together to God to keep us in good health. To this day...
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...ßCultural-Competence Assignment Introduction The purpose of this essay is to firstly understand the arguments between McSweeney and Hofstede about national cultures. The argument starts on the Hoftstede’s published book Culture’s Consequences. Hoftstede’s cultural dimensions theory has got popular and in the same time criticised by other scholars, while McSweeney is one of the scholars who have been critising the cultural dimensions on people from different nations. This essay will firstly summarise the ideas and arguments of both of McSweeney and Hofstede in order to develop the understanding about the reasons why they are conflicting with each other on the cultural dimension theories. Following the summary of the two scholars ideas and argument, this essay will discuss the agreement and disagreement of both scholars. Reflection on this course on national culture will be specified as well in order to show whether my personal understanding about culture has been changed or improved. Summary of the ideas and argument of both McSweeney and Hofstede * McSweeney’s argument McSweeney expresses his doubts about Hoftstede’s model of national cultural differences and their consequences. The criticism that McSweeney has on the theory of Hoftstede’s cultural dimensions based on the description of national cultural differences in the Culture’s Consequences published in 1980 (McSweeney, 2002). First of all, the methodology applied in the research of Hoftstede’s model is critised...
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...Business Studies (2006) 37, 525–543 & 2006 Academy of International Business All rights reserved 0047-2506 $30.00 www.jibs.net Cross-cultural competence in international business: toward a definition and a model James P. Johnson1, Tomasz Lenartowicz2 and Salvador Apud3 Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, USA; 2Deparment of Management, International Business and Entrepreneurship, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA; 3LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas, Austin, USA Correspondence: Dr James P. Johnson, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Office number 204, Winter Park, FL 32789, USA. Tel: þ 1 407 646 2486; Fax: þ 1 407 646 1550; E-mail: jpjohnson@rollins.edu 1 Abstract Many international business failures have been ascribed to a lack of crosscultural competence (CC) on the part of business practitioners. However, the international business literature appears to lack an adequate conceptualization and definition of the term ‘CC’, focusing instead on the knowledge, skills and attributes that appear to be its antecedents. In this conceptual study, we propose a definition of CC as it applies to international business and develop a model for understanding how CC is nurtured in individuals, linking our definition to the concept of cultural intelligence. We discuss the components of the model and suggest that there are environmental and contextual impediments to the effective application...
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...Purnell (2008) defines cultural competence as the adaptation of care in a manner that is consistent with the culture of the client and is, therefore, a conscious process and nonlinear. The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence consists of seven categories (macro aspects) and twelve sub categories (also known as domains), which introduce and detail the major realms of miscommunications in the health field. The model includes the following concepts: a global society, community, family, person, and conscious competence. The theory and model are conceptualized from biology, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, history, ecology, physiology, psychology, political science, pharmacology, nutrition, communications, family development, and...
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...“Cultural competency has become quite the buzzword, especially in the workplace. It can loosely be defined as a public health practitioner's knowledge, awareness, and practice with other individuals and populations with diverse cultural backgrounds. The first step to becoming culturally competent is realizing that you bring your own beliefs and worldview to your profession. Acknowledging this will help you minimize the interference that these beliefs may have as you work with others (i.e., patients, clients, colleagues, community, and public). Other steps you can take as a public health professional to become more culturally competent is to listen, have patience, and practice humility when you have limited knowledge regarding something or when...
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...Cultural Competence in Nursing Practice Nurses are constantly challenged when caring for the diverse ethnical population in the United States. Most of the direct care in a health care organization is provided by nurses therefore, the expectations are for nurses to be knowledgeable about the diverse health beliefs, and practices of their patients (Bauce, Kridli, & Fitzpatrick, 2014). Appropriate care planning and interventions will be more effective if the patient’s cultural, values and beliefs are understood and considered. In order for nurses to be competent, education and training needs to involve the following: Ethnicity, language, culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation and socioeconomic class. Cultural competency allows the patient and nurse to connect. For example, patients may be more comfortable in communicating and expressing themselves if the nurse speaks the same language as them. The nurse is able to address the patient and get a response therefore planning and interventions will be clearly understood by patient. It is important for the nurse and the health care organization to understand the culture of patients in order to provide cultural relevant treatment. For example, diet and nutrition is important and every culture has different foods of preference. A nurse may implement a nutrition plan for a diabetic patient based on the patient’s ethnic food groups or preference. The patient will most likely follow the diet if it is planed with foods that are familiar...
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...Cultural competence is highly important in the human services profession and is part of the National Organization for Human Services (NOHS) standards of ethics. As human service professionals we work with people from all different backgrounds, socioeconomic classes, and ages. We have to be aware the people we work with values and beliefs so that we do not offend them or cause conflict with them when we are supposed to be assisting them. On a practice level to me cultural competency means that we are respectful of not only our clients, but every one we work with. Our clients will come from different backgrounds and have different values and beliefs along with our coworkers also. When we look at the definition of cultural competence according...
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...Cultural competence is defined as having “the attitudes, knowledge and skills necessary for providing quality care to diverse populations” (Black, 2014, p. 198). Healthcare professionals who have obtained cultural competency “are prepared to provide patient-centered care with a focus on the patient’s specific needs that are shaped by culture” (Black, 2014, p. 198). I had the opportunity to interview one of my friends, Nawfal Patel. Nawfal has grown up into the Muslim religion his entire life, and has family members that are in the healthcare profession. Having the chance to interview him was very interesting to me since I’m not entirely familiar with his religion. Nawfal educated me on his family’s culture and traditions, and how they are affected in the medical field....
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...Cultural competence and understanding cultural beliefs and values allow health providers the ability to properly assess individuals and provide appropriate education which is understandable to the particular culture. Culture is behaviors, beliefs, values, and ways of life for an individual which influence health, healing, wellness, illness, and delivery of health services (Dolan Hunt, 2014). Cultural awareness, imposition and sensitivity are areas that need to be understood. Cultural awareness is the understanding of our own thoughts and abilities to reflect on them to better understand the differences of others. Cultural imposition is fully understanding the cultures beliefs before providing a plan. An example of this is educating a patient on a specific diet and the need to educate the health provider regarding the cultural beliefs as there may be certain foods that patient will not eat. Cultural sensitivity also needs to be considered, understanding communication in respecting ones culture. Verbal and non verbal communication both need to be considered. An example of this is that some cultures find it disrespectful to stare to long and have direct eye contact, therefore it is important to have knowledge of this so that when providing care this is respected (Dolan Hunt, 2014). It is important to be knowledgeable, unbiased and understanding in order to perform in our full capacity. Overall, providing culturally congruent care is essential to reduce health disparities...
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...Globalization has changed the way we live. The population demographic of United States is changing at a fast pace as every year people from different cultural and ethnic background are immigrating to the United States. By 2020, the number of ethnic minority in the United States will grow up to 35%. Immigration is an ongoing process and has brought a variety of culture and knowledge to the United States. The diversity of population is affecting the healthcare delivery system in the country. Nurses play a major role in the delivery of healthcare. Nurses are the direct caregivers to patients and spend maximum time with the patients and their family. “As the demographic composition of Western industrialized countries continues to diversify, the need for nurses to practice with cultural competence becomes essential” (Canales & Barbara, 2001, p. 103). Culturally Competent care Culturally competent care values diversity and respect individual differences regardless of one’s own race, beliefs, and cultural background. Culture can be defined as beliefs, values, customs and lifeway of a group of people that influence their choices in choosing health care practices. These behaviors are primarily learned in the family and are transmitted in the family. Culture is mostly unconscious and has strong influence on health practices. Subcultures, ethnic groups differ from the dominant culture and may have different values and beliefs. People from a given racial group may not necessarily...
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