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Cultural competence is a practice of values and attitudes that aims to optimize the healthcare experience of patients with cross cultural backgrounds. [6] Essential elements that enable organizations to become culturally competent include valuing diversity, having the capacity for cultural self-assessment, being conscious of the dynamics inherent when cultures interact, having ...
The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence is a broadly utilized model for teaching and studying intercultural competence, especially within the nursing profession. Employing a method of the model incorporates ideas about cultures, persons, healthcare and health professional into a distinct and extensive evaluation instrument used to establish and evaluate cultural competence in healthcare.
Cultural sensitivity training in health care providers can improve the satisfaction and health outcomes of patients from different minority groups. [16] Because standard measures for diagnosis and prognosis relate to established norms, cultural sensitivity is essential.
Native Americans say the U.S. is violating treaties with tribal nations that promised to care for tribes' health and welfare in return for their land. Patients suffer when Indian Health Service ...
American Indian and Alaska Native women experience gestational diabetes at a rate 1.5 times higher than the national average, postpartum depressive symptoms twice as much as white women, and, for ...
Cultural safety aims to enhance the delivery of health services through a culturally safe workforce by: 1) identifying the power relationship between the service provider and the people who use the service. The health care provider accepts and works alongside others after undergoing a careful process of institutional and personal analysis of ...
5 Trends Transforming Nurses' Roles in Health Care. As patient care becomes more complex, medical advances and technological innovations evolve to keep pace. Nurses must be ready to shift in their ...
The policy reasoned that improvements to the health status of Indigenous peoples should be built on three pillars: (1) community development, both socio-economic and cultural/spiritual, to remove the conditions which limit the attainment of well-being; (2) the traditional trust relationship between Indian people and the federal government; and ...