that people fear diversity because they fear what they do not know. In the NASW standards and ethics it states: 1.05 Cultural Competence and Social Diversity
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STRATEGY Is your core competence A MIRAGE? 40 THE McKINSEY QUARTERLY 1997 NUMBER 1 Managers now consider just about everything a potential competence Are you measurably better‚ can you sustain the diƒference‚ and does it matter? Building a core competence: three options Kevin P. Coyne Stephen J. D. Hall Patricia Gorman Cliƒford C – the idea that a company can succeed without a structural competitive advantage by becoming the best at a few key skills or in a few knowledge
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Emerging Standards of Care: Cultural Competence Lori Blount‚ RN‚ BSN University of Phoenix Professor Jane Jacks October 13‚ 2014 Emerging Standards of Care: Cultural Competence The United States is often referred to as a melting pot. Cultural diversity is an inevitable reality in today’s society. We are faced with an increasingly diverse patient population and a diverse group of health care providers. Culture is a dynamic and complex phenomena that most understand as something
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How might developing cultural competence improve mental health services? The inequalities within the health and social care system are widely recognised (K272‚ Unit 1‚ p. 10‚ K272‚ Unit 4‚ p. 79). These inequalities relate to the boundaries within the society and especially communication (Anderson et al‚ 2003). The disproportions in the multicultural society may be even bigger due to higher number of boundaries and lack of understanding demonstrated by the majority towards minorities. Health and
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The presence of cultural competence in the health care system and what it means for the health of our diverse population‚ is something that should be part of the schooling for healthcare providers. Cultural Competence in the health care system is described as the ability to tend to the needs of patients through understanding their linguistic and cultural differences. Our vast‚ diverse population in the United States makes cultural competence in health care imperative. Without it‚ we cannot provide
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CULTURES: THE ROLE OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE Dr. Alexi Matveev College of Staten Island New York‚ NY‚ USA Dr. Elena Lvina Concordia University Montreal‚ Quebec‚ Canada Abstract New theoretical frameworks are needed to better understand effective transformational leadership in different cultural contexts. In this article we illustrate the relationship between transformational leadership and the cross-cultural communication competence frame. We show how national
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According Anderson L‚ (2012). Cultural competence and respect for others are mainly important in the nursing practice since we are patient advocates.The advancement of cultural competence in the nursing practice primarily need nurses have the recognition of the that there are other beliefs systems that in our our society. Most often‚ the nurse practices of patients may look odd and incomprehensible but with conscious effort made to know about these diverse lifestyles ‚ beliefs‚ language‚ religion
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Cultural competency is important when working in health care because it closes the gap between healthcare practitioners and their patients. It’s important for healthcare practitioners to not only have an understanding of not only a patient’s socio-cultural background because of the different beliefs‚ values‚ and traditions they will experience‚ but it’s also important to know the socio-cultural background of their families. Enculturation is important when you’re working with different groups of people
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This memo is in response to what I have learned in Cultural Competence in Research Symposium featuring the Bok Players. First time I attended the Cultural Competence in Research Symposium featuring the Bok Players. From this symposium I learned in what way the cultural difference in research influences that what we investigate‚ how we investigate‚ and how we interpret our findings. I learned how we can explore the complexities of issues in cultural differences in research. I learned how we can discuss
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Running head: CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND TREATMENT OF THE HISPANIC POPULATION Cultural Competence and Treatment of the Hispanic Population Monique D Brown Wellons Walden University Cultural Competence and Treatment of the Hispanic Population In the peer review article “A clinical trial of peer-based culturally responsive person-centered care for psychosis for African Americans and Latinos” by Tondora‚ et al (2010)‚ conducted a test study on African
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