Why Is It Important To Practice Cultural Competence?

Culture can be described to be a social group’s views, belief, customs, values, mean of communication and, religious and ethnic practices (Campinha-Bacote, 2002). The United States comprises of a diverse cultural population with different cultural backgrounds: in such a societal setting, when the various cultures are in disagreement, the platform hosts mixed emotions and feelings of anger, mistrust, confusion and other sentiments. Consequently, with the upsurge of the diverse cultural population in Ireland, nurses were obliged to practice cultural competence. Cultural competence can be defined to be the ability to gain skills, behaviours, and attitudes while complying with policies which ensures work in a cross-cultural is effective (Shen 2015). Furthermore, cultural competency can be described to be the commitment of healthcare professionals and nurses to provide equality in health care provision while delivering their services. For instance, competency denotes that nurses should treat all patients with respect and dignity without discrimination
The Campinha-Bacote (2002) model identifies five essential stages involved in the process of delivering healthcare services in line with cultural competence. The involved phases are cultural consciousness, knowledge, expertise, encounters, and needs. Conversely, according to Papadopoulas et al. (2002), the process encompasses only four steps: involving cultural awareness, knowledge, competent and sensitivity. Also, Rosenjack Burchum (2018) acknowledged the cultural competence attributes to be in line with those of Papadopolos et al. (2002) then added cultural understanding and skills among the essential qualities. Therefore, conferring with Rosenjack Burchum (2018), cultural competence is the acquiring of knowledge along with skills displayed from the combination of the attributes mentioned above concerning the human