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- Research shows significant benefits resulting from culturally competent nursing care. Social benefits include fostering mutual respect, understanding, and trust; promoting inclusion and patient and family responsibilities for their health; and increasing community participation and involvement in health issues.
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Aug 22, 2019 · The importance of cultural competence is evident in terms of the quality of healthcare, and more knowledge is needed about different educational models and approaches that aim to increase cultural competence.
- Anu Marja Kaihlanen, Laura Hietapakka, Tarja Heponiemi
- 2019
Nov 1, 2023 · Cultural competence is the ability to provide culturally sensitive and competent care to patients, families or communities by considering their values, beliefs, customs and traditions and incorporating them in the provision of care [8].
Cultural competence in nursing focuses largely on the ability to compare and contrast the healthcare beliefs, values, and cultural lifestyles of different individuals, and to provide them with culturally appropriate and beneficial care [9]. There are many advantages in the provision of culturally appropriate care.
Jul 16, 2020 · While several theories and corresponding measures of cultural competency have been advanced and tried, much work remains, as many nursing professionals continue to call for greater evidence-based research and attention to patient perspectives and outcomes.
- Linda Harkess, Mahmoud Kaddoura
- 2016
Results. Patients in public sector hospitals in Gauteng believe consideration of culture is important in nursing. They identified the cultural needs they would like nurses to acknowledge, such as being asked about their food preferences and mentioned the need to evaluate nurses’ level of cultural competence.
Feb 8, 2023 · Cultural competence education is laden with issues of sensitivity, notions of “political correctness” and entrenched in historical contexts around healthcare inequalities and social justice.
Dec 6, 2023 · Definitions. Cultural competency refers to an ability to work effectively across cultures. Within the health humanities, it refers to a training framework and a skillset that healthcare providers can use to work within and across organizations, with patients, and with other stakeholders.
