Describe The Key Components Of A Comprehensive Cultural Assessment

The increasing cultural evolution that is occurring throughout the world is making it imperative for health care professionals to achieve and implement cultural competent congruent care (Jeffreys, 2015). The purpose of this discussion is to define cultural diverse assessments, describe the key components of a comprehensive cultural assessment in my own words and identify the five communication skills that facilitate culturally competent care.

Cultural diverse assessment is a culturally responsive treatment plan that helps health care workers and medical staff formulate a treatment plan for patients that is mutually acceptable (Andrews & Boyle, 2016). To provide culturally competent care for a patient of culture, it is necessary for recognizing what the patient’s own cultural beliefs, practices, and values are. These factors need to be respected and considered
Cultural competence involves respect, awareness, understanding, and empathy of a certain cultural, understanding their values, beliefs, and practices way of health (Andrews & Boyle, 2016). Five communication skills that can be used to facilitate culturally competent health care is first, recognizing our own biases with self-reflection and putting them aside; recognizing what language the patient prefers and feels the most comfortable to speak in; seeing the patient or family member needs a professional interpreter to help them fully understand what is being said (Andrews & Boyle, 2016). Recognizing if the patient has a non-verbal style of communication such as gesticulating and eye contact or lack thereof, to help identify a safe comfort communication distance; And lastly, making sure the patient is comfortable with the health care providers who are taking care of them for example the differences in age, gender, race or culture of the health care