Cultural Competency

After taking the self-assessment survey for quality and culture, I would like to improve and understand how cultural competence can have a real impact on clinical outcomes. Taking from some of the questions I answered wrong, it make me wants to be cultural competent. There are a few questions I am surprised and shocked, that I answered them incorrectly. I do understand that with training, I will start to gain cultural competence but it will take consistent individual practice on my part to develop and maintain individual cultural competence. Cultural competence can lead to, health literacy, health equity, and fewer diagnostic errors, which might help the patient expand their choices and access high quality medical providers because patient

In nursing school, we are taught to learn about culture consideration but we can only remember so many since there are a lot of different cultures out there. One way I think that can help to have a better understanding regarding different culture is having an online class for it. In Children Hospital they offer different classes through Powerpoint for nurses that want to have a better understanding about certain topic. At the end of the class, there will be a quiz for you to take to pass the class. With these classes, you can take it whenever you want and by simply logging into your work account.

Medical providers that have cultural competency will overall enhance the quality of care to a diverse group of patients. Having that cultural knowledge would help the medical provider make the patient feel comfortable ultimately increasing the chance for that patient to follow through or adhere to the medical provider's treatment plan. It would also allow the medical provider to help build a friendly nurturing relationship with all of his or her patients. Developing these friendly relationships with patients will help make the patient worry less about a difficult diagnosis and would give them hope that they could one day get better from it. When a medical provider is culturally competent they would know how to respond to certain medical scenarios

Creating value through collaboration has been a topic of concern over the last 50 years as the spending in health care has increased. The goal is to provide quality and affordability and because of past efforts, enrollment increased drastically while it created a shortage of providers. Integrating behavioral and medical health has not been properly addressed due to stigmas and lack of education. Behavior health is more common today and costly. In efforts to integrate and improve patient outcomes and provider experiences there are many ways to achieve this goal such as train medical providers, train behavioral practioniers and embed behavioral providers in primary care settings.

Steve ~ I went ahead and scheduled a seat for the Intercultural Competence Mod 3 for Dec 8 here in Portland. Mary returns on Dec 8 so she would be in the office to cover; however, her and I would have limited cross-talk that day If you want me to schedule for a later period let me know. The only other date on the schedule as of now is Dec 9 in Salem, which I could attend instead if you preferred.

After carefully reviewing the article entitled Latino definitions of success: A cultural model of intercultural competence. As I can read the article I can see that the methods that are used are Phase 1 and Phase 2. The first Phase qualitative data interviewed deals with fifteen Latino who comes from a Midwestern city. The interview wanted to get a better understanding of the skills necessary for the Latino culture to become successfully in the United States. Some of the ways that participates were recruited were community and organization setting.

According to the Rogers & Vismara article, while cultural factors may influence the course of detection, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders, child treatment programs for autism tend to lack cultural considerations. One strategy the authors mentioned to address this issue is to train researchers and service providers in cultural competence. What would be some of the essential components of effective cultural competency training that is uniquely catering to culturally diverse children with autism spectrum

This text falls on the Cultural Competence Continuum of Cultural destructiveness, due to its racist and sexism context. From the beginning, the authors address the black culture as a culture that is destructive, abusive, insensitive, negative, damaging, poor and with no moral values. By the author writing a story to simply amuse her little girls that belittle not just the black community, but specifically black little girls who perhaps was the same age as her own girls are destructive and shameful. The author used a children’s book to project a false image of black children’s, black women and the entire black culture. In the text little Mingo had no father or mother, the author did not include not even one of her parents in the story

The diversity in the United States continues to grow, increasing the demand of creating more cultural competent programs. Health outcomes are addressed by race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. In research. race and ethnicity are potential predictors for a particular outcome. There is need for more research studies in order to provide an understanding of the different needs among ethnic minority groups.

I think it is extremely important to be culturally competent. I would like to study the culture of my population to start with. In AODA there already is a certain amount of culture with numerous subcultures that is quantified buy the popularity of the drug of choice to the individual. Alcoholics find themselves in an extremely large culture or population, while benzo abusers would be a relatively small group, but growing daily. I plan on learning more about the different subcultures by going to different seminars and obtaining my own data through books and the World Wide Web.

Mental health service and cultural competency play an important role in the enhancement of wellness and resilience of clients served. Multicultural competency and diversity continue to impact counselor education, training, theories and interventions. Counseling organizations must reflect cultural competency in many different ways in order to impact a wide range of clients. For this essay, Ms. Katherine Carter was interviewed. She is the director and a licensed Marriage & Family therapist at The Westminster Center.

Cultural competency: Indians Culture competency is defined as one has the knowledge, the abilities and the skill to deliver care congruent with the patient’s cultural beliefs and practices (Purnell, 2013). As a nurse or a health care provider, increasing ones consciousness of culture diversity improves the possibilities for health care practitioners to provide competent care (Purnell, 2013). Nurses and all health care providers should be aware of other cultures to provide the best care that they can for that individual. Developing a relationship with diverse cultural groups involves good interpersonal skills and the application of knowledge and techniques learned from the physical, biological, and social sciences as well as the humanities (Purnell, 2013). I am choosing to select the Indian culture for my first assignment.

Since management of controls is a complex area, mental health, organizational leaders can implement an educational panel who will further institute cultural competency training which will identify their own cultural biases, assumptions, along with the implication these behaviors have our the workplace and productivity. This academic method will be implemented in a formative learning environment such as workshops and activities which improve relationship within the workplace culture and unite the workforces, build leaders, while increasing awareness of diversity throughout the workplace. This competitive training will allow leaders can also discover best practices, multicultural communications. From an employee perspective employees to engage

Over the past four months, this course has been one of the most eye-opening experiences I have had during my first year of college. Although I have always realized the importance of being culturally competent in daily life, specifically healthcare, I was unaware of the many ways that cultural competence can be obtained. This class gave me the opportunity to view situations from a different perspective, especially through the weekly discussion boards and peer responses. Learning from classmate can teach more valuable lessons than listening to boring lectures or reading hundreds of pages in a textbook because it is easier to relate to experience rather than hypothetical situations. For example, one of the discussion boards asked us to detail

Cultural Competence Through an in-depth reading of many of the literature of international social work, we find it difficult to find a definition or a unified meaning of cultural competence, but nevertheless, I will try to shed light on the most important meanings of cultural competence concept. The concept of cultural competence began to appear in the literature in the United States in the 1980s Bartoli(20013, p 49) and was a reflection of the migration movement since the fifties of the last century and thus led to the migration of America to the emergence and growth of different ethnic and ethnic groups, which also led to the existence of different cultural, religious, linguistic and health needs increased of its complexity because of its experiences in displacement and violence in all its forms.