This document discusses strategies for cultural competence that community health nurses can apply in their practice. It provides examples of cultural preservation, accommodation, repatterning, and brokering. Cultural preservation allows for traditions like Dia de Los Muertos to continue. Cultural accommodation involves speaking the local language in public settings while maintaining one's native language at home. Cultural repatterning helps patients make safer choices, like teaching safe infant sleeping. Cultural brokering uses common ground like a social worker to reduce conflict between those from different cultures. One barrier to these strategies is language differences, as medical terminology alone can cause issues, and dialects may not directly translate.