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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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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INTRODUCTION Background of the Study For any newly licensed registered nurse about to embark on her nursing career‚ the concept of competence is of great personal and professional significance. Questions abound regarding what it means to be a competent nurse and how competence is measured. Nursing competency is defined by the National Council for State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) as the “application of knowledge‚ interpersonal decision-making and psychomotor skills expected for the practice role
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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
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Capstone Section 1: Multicultural Competence ` In this section of the Capstone Project I will address the knowledge and skills I have learned in the JMSW Program in regard to multicultural competence. I will first outline the knowledge I have acquired on multicultural competence from courses in the curriculum. Next I will delineate the ethical issues that impact this part of my practice as a professional social worker. Then I will demonstrate my skill development through the completion of a paper
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Week7 1. Why is it important to presume competence in educational settings? Discuss with regards to the social relational understanding of disability (in particular‚ barriers to doing and barriers to being). It is important to presume every child is competence in educational settings‚ such positive attitude are necessary for educator to facilitate inclusion (Biklen & Burke‚ 2006). The notion of presuming competence viewing ‘disability’ from the perspective of social relational understanding of disability
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In her article Multicultural competence‚ Mary E. Kite contends that the using of difficult dialogues is necessary in teaching about diversity and claims that terminology is one of the simple ways to set the stage for engaging in this difficult dialogues. She states that the advantages of students’ studying diversity consist of: further scientific studies about human behavior‚ improvement in critical thinking skills‚ and improvement in both personal and cognitive development. According to the author
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Another framework is the Sue (2001) threefold model of cultural competence that integrates five race- and culture specific constituencies who merit such competence (African Americans‚ Asian Americans‚ Latino Americans‚ Native Americans‚ and European Americans); 31 specific competencies divided into three domains (beliefs/attitudes‚ knowledge‚ and skills); and four ‘‘foci’’ or levels of analysis to which cultural competence should apply (individual‚ professional‚ organizational‚ and societal). There
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experience for all involved. When there is an absence of Cultural competency it can have a number of negative effects for the patient but also for the healthcare practitioner. After reading the article‚ "Why is There a Compelling Need for Cultural Competence" I learned that knowing a patients socio-cultural background can decrease the likelihood of liability or malpractice claims. When a patient feels respected‚ understood‚ and the line of communication is open the health care provider is less likely
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1. There are four categories of the Satter Eating Competence Model; eating attitudes‚ food acceptance‚ internal regulation‚ and contextual skills. How people view food is important in eating attitudes. Dieters tend to feel guilty after eating food they labeled as bad food and putting themselves in a vicious cycle between restrict and binge. Solution suggested in the article was quit dieting and enjoy foods even foods for the soul. For better food acceptance‚ it is necessary to try new foods and eat
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