Cultural Competence In Children

Cultural competence is defined as possessing the skills and knowledge necessary to appreciate, respect, and work with individuals from different cultures. It is a concept that requires self-awareness, awareness and understanding of cultural differences, and the ability to adapt to clinical skills and practices as needed

It have been proven effective in providing services to individuals from a wide spread of diverse backgrounds. Cultural competence is understanding a set of congruent behaviors, knowledge, attitudes and policies that enable effective work in cross-cultural situations (Bazron, Cross, Dennis, & Isaacs, 1989). This means that an individual trains to understand different cultural groups. Cultural competency training is beneficial to all human service organizations because it aims to increase the knowledge and skills to improve one’s ability to efficiently serve different cultural groups therefore eliminating biases and

For us to develop cultural competence we need to have a level expertise, knowledge and attributes. When I mention Expertise I am referring to professional skills such as, being able to communicate correct information for culturally different people and their communities, the skill to candidly discuss racial and ethnic issues and to react to culturally based signs, the skill to understand the meaning that traditions/culture has for each person, Interviewing skills that help to understand and accommodate the role of language in a person’s culture and the skill to use the idea of empowerment on behalf of culturally different people and communities.

Cultural competence is about having awareness, respect and understanding about the diversity around you. Cultural competence is one of the eight key practices that the early years learning framework features as vital to support a child’s learning. Cultural competence is about learning and building an understanding about different cultures while being respectful and open about different cultures and the people within them. Its more then just awareness of cultural differences, its about the ability to understand people across different cultures and developing constructive attitudes concerning cultural difference.

I enjoyed reading your thoughtful discussion post on cultural competency of organizations and nurses. Your rationale for both the organization and the individual nurse being responsible to ensure culturally competent care was similar to mine. For example, I mentioned the need for nursing curriculums at all levels of nursing education to provide competency training (American Academy of Colleges of Nursing website, 2011).

To work effectively in a foreign community, it is crucial that short-term nurses have an understanding of culture, belief system, and their lifestyles. Nurses needs to be culturally competence in order to provide patient centered effective healthcare. Culture competence is the ability of healthcare professionals to understand the social, cultural and linguistic needs of patients in order to provide effective health care (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, 2004).   A lack of culture competence can lead to poor patient outcome. For example, if a nurse has a poor understanding of a diabetic patient's diet, and food preference, that could inhibit the nurse's ability to educate patient to manage the disease.

I believe I can improve my cultural competence by learning to understand the opinions of family members about the intervention process with older and elderly individuals. I enjoy helping and serving people, so it is hard for me to understand that some patients and families do not want to seek help. I need to learn to set my own opinions aside and be competent toward the wants and needs of the family.

Introduction and Aims “A police officer who killed an unarmed college football player during a suspected burglary at a Texas car dealership was fired Tuesday for making mistakes that the city's police chief said caused a deadly confrontation that put him and other officers in danger. The officer, identified by the department as 49-year-old Brad Miller, graduated from the police academy in March 2015. He has been in field training and working under the supervision of a training officer, the department said. The training officer and other officers were on the scene when the shooting occurred, Rodriguez said” (The Brownsville Herald, 2015 August 11).

Diversity refers to an array of differences among individuals, groups, and communities (Pearson, p.1629, 2015).

Government and accreditation authorities have also incorporated cultural competence in strategic planning of health services in Australia (Victorian Department of Health 2009, 2011a, 2011b)

To begin, the cultural competence self-assessment revealed that with a low score of three out of twelve that I am not very ethnocentric. I don’t believe my culture and my beliefs are most important than another person’s. I think of myself as a normal young-adult trying to live her life, get good grades and work hard. When meeting or interacting with new people I don’t judge them based on their appearance and I treat everyone with the respect that they deserve by viewing them simply as another human being trying to live their day to day life. Although, when obtaining the score of five out of eleven for the for the universalism scale, I found myself to be closer to the mid-range area. This result indicates that I possess some universal assumptions of other cultures. I found this result slightly surprising and unexpected because I don’t believe that everyone associated to a certain group (religious, social-class, etc.) are all the same. For example, when reflecting on my own religion, being raise in a catholic family, attending church at a young age and going to catholic school, I do see similarities in terms of values and morals with others that share the same beliefs as me, but I also see differences. One stereotypical association with Catholics is that they all think that being homosexual, attraction to the same gender, is a sin according to the Bible. However, being a supporter of the LGBT community myself, I do think differently than other Catholics and for that reason I

Understand cultural competence and why is it important especially for that have a diverse workforce.

“Cultural competence is everyday and reality based.” This expression is that cultural competence occurs everyday, yet is based off what is what one perceives first hand. Everyday we meet and see different cultures. Cultural competence is important for society as a whole. Culture has a special meaning to all; it can identify the human population into groups. Culture is passed down from generations, which include values and beliefs. Diversity in America is what makes it great a fine blending of all cultures. Being culturally competent is a challenge being a nurse has greatly increases my cultural awareness. Cultural competence is reality based to me meaning that our cultural competence should and must be founded from facts. The news does

Example: During my shift, I attended to people of various cultures. One of my patients is Hispanic. She was given an option of using an interpreter and she requested for an interpreter. I checked blood pressure, temperature, pulse, and oxygen saturation level. In addition, I did urine dip for some patients. Some of the ways to develop cultural competence are to know that culture is dynamic, become aware of culture in others, especially among client groups you serve, and develop the ability to work within others’ cultural context, free from ethnocentric judgments (Allender, Rector, & Warner, 2014, p. 128).

Ms. Jo didn't really have to address anything that revolved around showing or being culturally competent; therefore, this lead to her not really having to hit on this topic as much. But that doesn't mean she wouldn't have addressed it well if she had to. I am beyond sure that she will do a fantastic job if her chapter had her put her level of culturally competence on display. I stand by this statement because she always shows her level of professionalism.