1)Why is cultural competence important?
2) What characteristics would a culturally competent nurse possess?
3) Describe a situation in which you demonstrated culturally competent care with a patient/patient’s family or alternatively, describe a situation in which you did not provide culturally competent care and what could have been done to improve that interaction.
Expert Answer
2. Cultural competant nurse would posses quality such as
- To deal with all kind of people on same manner
- To analyse the different cultural background people and to adapt with the situation
- To fintune the service aspect based on their requirement
- To interact with them and to make them more free to have have an open communication channel
- Be always on dedicated and commited mode irresepctive of their cultural background and regional boundaries
3. The typical example of culutral competency in health care segment is the time where tourist travelleers visited a place and they met with an accident. The service providers and the staffs ( doctors, nurses and hospital staffs) needs to be very friendly and its their responsbility to show their host behaviour to give them the best treatment possible irrespective of their culutural and ethnical background. How they treat their gurs shows their cultural heirage
The situation which wont support culutral compentancy is in the area of celebration of different festival . Sometimes all are regional specifc celebrations and minorites rituals and celebrations are given minimal importance. This can be avoided by considering all such festival as their common festival.