Cultural Competency in the Classroom and Beyond Providing culturally competent care within the healthcare profession is imperative to the success and evaluation of positive outcomes of patient-centered care. According to Nair & Adetayo (2019), cultural competence is “the ability to collaborate effectively with individuals from different cultures; and such competence improves healthcare experiences and outcomes.” Studies demonstrate the effectiveness of educating healthcare professionals on their…
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Cultural competence in counseling is very important. As more individuals seek out counseling services, counselors need to be aware of the diverse cultures and their competency level before working with these clients. Counselors who do not posses the necessary skills should not take on clients of cultural diversity. This only makes sessions unproductive which waste both the clients and the counselors time. Diverse clients may present issues including a loss of identity, stereotype threat, oppression…
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with distinct cultures coexist side by side. With increasing diversity in the general population, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), along with others, advocates for greater diversity within the nursing workforce to mirror the cultural make-up of the population in order to ensure the best possible patient outcomes (AACN, 2015; Phillips & Malone, 2014). It has also been recognized that minority populations within the United States have long been marginalized and do not always have…
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skills to meet an increasingly diverse American population.” (Seckman, 2013) Cultural competence is a professional practice issue in healthcare that is present and continuing to emerge in our society. It can place a patient’s safety at risk, affect the quality of care they receive, and interfere with the nurse’s ability to care for the patient. New nurses or nursing students are especially vulnerable to this lack of cultural competency. Not only are they trying to navigate through a rigorous nursing…
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The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the “Cultural Differences” video from the required Hot Seat Case Study. In this video we watched Mustang Jeans, Director of Foreign Sales (Michael Sokolow), and PopWear, Vice President of Merchandise (Norio Tokunaka) met with each other to what Michael assumed to signing the contract to close the deal Norio and Roger Smalls. The contract was the terms of the business deal for Popwear sale Mustang Jeans clothing line in their 36 stores in Japan for expansion…
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This final post is to reflect on the three Learning Goals I set for myself earlier in the semester. Those three were: 1. Identify strategies to be culturally sensitive and competent with diverse patients. 2. Expand my knowledge of various minority cultures & their healthcare beliefs- Hmong, Latino. 3. Identify strategies to communicate with diverse patients and ensure informed consent and understanding. Goal number two was the easiest to achieve because I read a book about when Hmong culture…
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facilitation of the training. Culturally Competent Care (C3) is a training series comprised of three modules, created by the North Carolina Communicable Disease Branch’s CAPUS project. The C3 curriculum and trainings were developed to build cultural competency and responsiveness among providers who deliver healthcare or…
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principles of a certain group of people. Cultural competence on the other hand is the ability to learn and understand the various cultural differences that exist such as language and religion. Being culturally competent is essential because it can make a significant difference in our society by bringing unity amongst diverse group of people. It also ensure that health interventions are properly delivered and evaluated. In order to be culturally competent, individuals need to be willing to learn with…
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care systems must focus more on providing cultural competent services. The term cultural competence is defined as a set of behavior and attitude within a business or operating systems that respects a person’s cultural beliefs and values in the way healthcare is delivered (Betancourt, 2002). It can be applied both at the individual level or organizational level, in which serves as a basis for individuals to work with members of different backgrounds. Cultural sensitivity, care helps create optimal patient-provider…
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choose who to service, who they associate and there environment, this can be an example of possibly discriminating against an individual. As we know with the NASW code of ethics we should not discriminate based on any factors of social, economic or cultural status. One of the comparisons I was able to identify was both are a guide not a law to follow to help guide in decision making and conduct…
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