severe lack of health care available to care for this patient population. Inadequate access to healthcare‚ decrease quality of care‚ and poor outcomes for individuals with racial and ethnic disparities has become increasingly more evident in the healthcare settings. Culture influence the values and beliefs that individual develop and is the foundation in which each individual form their behavior‚ lifestyle‚ and worldview. It is this cultural norm that individuals perceived health‚ illness‚ and
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There are many things we can do better as a community to become more culturally competent‚ especially when providing care to patients. There things we can do both organizationally (as a community) or individually. Creating programs for diversity health care leadership development and strengthening exercises (Betancourt‚ Green‚ &Carrillo‚ 2002). Businesses can hire and promote staff from diverse cultures (Betancourt et al.‚ 2002). Involve community representatives in health care organization’s meetings
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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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Beyond Cultural Competence Context: A talk on training teachers and students that goes beyond cultural competence and intercultural dialogue to avoid work friction and bullying at schools. It is without a doubt that we are now living in and as a global society. With just a look to our left and right‚ we can confirm this fact. Living globally also means the accumulation of more differences amongst us in the society. These differences can be regarding race‚ ethnicity‚ culture‚ traditions‚ sexuality
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Cultural competence and ethical responsibility of counselors is an issue that holds increasing importance. To be both multicultural and ethical is increasingly challenging. The population of the United States is changing quickly from a predominately white Caucasian society to an ethnically diverse society`. The Hispanic population‚ which represented only 9% of the population in 1990‚ is projected to increase to about 25% of the population by 2050. The number of African Americans‚ Asian Americans/Pacific
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Cultural Competent and Ethics Pam Cowan Multicultural Psychology PSYCH/535 Professor Nino Kakulia December 16‚ 2012 Cultural Competent and Ethics Multicultural psychology is fairly new to the field of psychology and is constantly changing and improving. Some current emerging issues that of concern within multicultural psychology are researchers being cultural competent and the ethics involved when working with a diverse group of people. America is a very culturally diverse place and culture
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Assessing one’s position on the cultural competence continuum is a task of ironic proportions. Because it is a fluid process‚ it is difficult to precisely place one’s self on a continuum that is not quite linear. It seems that as soon as one feels that they are becoming competent and embodying the characteristics of one who completely respects and accepts another culture‚ there is yet another dimension of this competence that requires assessment and adaptation. For the time being and that being
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of cultural competence and describe in your own words‚ what is the definition of cultural competence? According to (Leininger‚ 1979)‚ Cultural competence is divided in to two categories‚ the first one is the organizational cultural competence which is according to the National Center of Cultural Competence should hold a defined set of values and principles to be utilized to assess‚ work and measure the effectiveness of the serviced communities. The second category is the individual cultural competence
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Cultural Competence in Counseling In today’s society there is a multitude of culturally diverse individuals. As a mental health counselor it is not only in my best interest to make sure that I am aware of my own cultural heritage‚ but it is also my responsibility to insure that I am aware of my client’s cultural heritage. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how culturally different I am from a client in the following case study Jia is a young Asian woman who immigrated
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Cultural Competence Assessment Diana Sanchez NRSE 4570 The United States is one of the most multicultural countries in the world. In fact it is projrected that by the year 2020 only 53% of the U.S. population will be White of European Descent (Giger‚ 2013). This has a huge impact on nursing because the patient population we are serving is changing very rapidly and we need to adapt in order to provide culturally appropriate care. A culturally competent nurse is one that seeks knowledge and
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