Chapter 2: Culturally Competent Nursing Care Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved 1 Cultural Competence #1 Multiple factors are converging to heighten societal awareness of cultural similarities and differences among people: Vulnerable populations Immigration Health tourism Refugees Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved Cultural Competence #2 Requires interprofessional collaborative practice engaging: Health care providers Patients, families, caregivers, communities Folk or traditional healers Religious/spiritual leaders Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved Cultural Competence #3 Cultural competence can be divided into two major categories: Individual cultural competence Organizational cultural competence Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved 4 Cultural Competence #4 Individual cultural competence refers to the care provided for an individual client by one or more health providers. Organizational cultural competence focuses on the collective competencies of the members of an organization. Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved 5 Question #1 Is the following statement true or false? Individual cultural competence refers to care for a single client. Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved 6 Answer to Question #1 True Rationale: Individual cultural competence refers to the care provided for an individual client by one or more health providers. Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved 7 Cultural Self-Assessment #1 Cultural self-assessment enables you to use personal life experiences to gain insights into your health-related: Attitudes Values Beliefs Practices A personal and professional journey Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved 8 Cultural Self-Assessment #2 Cultural self-assessment can help nurses overcome ethnocentric tendencies and cultural stereotypes, thus helping to prevent prejudice and discrimination. Assists nurses to recognize the ways in which their background and lived experiences have shaped and informed the person he or she has become today Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved 9 Cultural Self-Assessment #3 Ethnocentrism The human tendency to view one's own group as the center of and superior to all other groups Cultural stereotype A preconceived, fixed perception or impression of someone from a particular cultural group without meeting the person Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer • All Rights Reserved Cultural Self-Assessment #4 Prejudice Inaccurate perceptions of others or preconceived judgments about people based on ethnicity, race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, social class, size, disability, religion, language, political opinion, or related personal characteristics Discrimination The act or behavior of setting one individual or group apart from another, thereby tre.