Intercultural competence

population. Nurses are frontline patient advocates and education and training in cultural competence is an intervention that will implement positive changes in healthcare delivery in the U.S. Definition of Cultural Competence Professional nursing services provided utilizing cultural competence is a way of providing healthcare to a diverse population without bias to patient’s cultural beliefs. Increasing cultural competence and providing culturally congruent care in nursing can improve the quality of care

In general, there are two different methods of communication. First, verbal messages occur face to face, by telephone, in writing and via computer assistance (Payne). The second method is nonverbal messages which occur through the use of facial expressions, tone of voice, physical gestures and distance/touching and the use of silence. Nonverbal communication is arguably the most complex method of communication. For example, we often gesture with our hand and fingers the “A-OK” (Figure 4). Unfortunately

How can community health nurses apply the strategies of cultural competence to their practice? Provide at least one example from each of four strategies: cultural preservation, cultural accommodation, cultural repatterning, and cultural brokering. What is a possible barrier to applying the strategy/example chosen? Use an example that is different than the postings of other students. As an OB nurse, I care for many Hispanic women having babies. One of the culturally challenging barriers I have come

Business Memo To: From: Date: 2/5/2014 Subject: Manager-Employee Issues I am writing the memo to share some issues I have with one of my employees. Ten moths ago I hired a salesman with Chinese origin to help the company to take over the Chinese businesses in Plano, Texas. I cannot “click on personal level” with him since the very beginning of our relationship which is causing troubles in our communications. Another reason for our communication problem could be the different cultural background

Racism, and ethnocentrism can be a significant factor in determining if an individual can maintain a healthy interpersonal relationship. Both racism and ethnocentrism can be barriers that affect competent cross- cultural communication. Crash (Schulman & Haggis, 2004) is a film that has characters of very different natures. The characters may be involved in conflicts due to the differences in genders, cultures and races. As these strangers in the film crash into each other, you may notice that racism

My upbringing is atypical compared to most white, middle-class females, I would also assume different than my classmates. What once caused me a sense a dread now gives me a sense of pride because I have lived a life others have not. I feel I have a better understanding of the diversity of the community than people I know. I frankly did not need an assessment to point out my knowledge of cultural differences as I have lived with many diverse cultures. I explain to my children that they are at

and knowledge from the world’s most influential universities in society one must travel to different countries. In return, these experiences would allow one to become an effective communicator by understanding other cultures. Cultural Competence Cultural competence is the art of respecting the varying cultures of one's patients and adapting to the unique needs and considerations that accompany each individual. In order to be culturally competent, the nurse must first identify his or her own cultural

Cultural identity varies from person to person and To me cultural identity basically means what kind of person you are and the way you see others. it plays a big role in life and there are lots of aspects such as religion, language, racial identity, values and gender. Those aspects define your cultural identity. One of the cultural aspects that I will talk about has impacted my life the most which is my religion and that religion is christianity. When I was one month old my parents took me to church

The definition of Intercultural communication is “a method of communication that aims to share information across different cultures and social groups.” The challenges that may occur during this type of communication come from misunderstanding individual’s communication from a different culture other than their own. Each individual from their respective culture encodes and encodes messages verbally and non-verbally. Many barriers can be put up when trying to initiate intercultural communication. In

in the social, political and historical aspect of healthcare. The way this can be done is by shifting their thoughts from cultural competence to cultural safety by way of relational ethics. Cultural competence is explained as the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that nurses need to use to care for cultural differences. Another framework described cultural competence as going through the stages of cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill, cultural encounter, and cultural desire. Cultural