Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care
Kersey-Matusiak, Gloria (ed)
Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care - New York : Springer, 2013
Defining cultural competency; Patient-focussed cultural assessment models; Why can't the speak our language? Working with culturally diverse colleagues; Cultural considerations when the patient's religious of spiritual needs differ from one's own; Cultural considerations when caring for patients with physical, psychological, or intellectual disabilities; Cultural considerations when the patient speaks a different language; Cultural considerations when caring for the patient who is terminally ill; Cultural considerations when caring for the geographically displaced client; cultural considerations when working with a patient with a sexual orientation the differs from one's own; cultural considerations when caring for the new immigrant or refugee; Cultural considerations when caring for the poor
Offering a how-to approach to the development and application of cultural competency skills in nursing, this text provides numerous techniques for cultural self-assessment and cultural patient assessment. Its unique framework for self-assessment-considered to be a highly important facet of developing culturally competent nursing care--is based on the Cultural Competency Staircase Model, a self-assessment model that was developed by the author who has over 30 years of clinical practice in culturally diverse settings.</p> <p>The text begins by defining cultural competency and describes how nurses can use the Staircase Model to determine their level of cultural competence.
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Nursing
Nursing Care
Cultural Factors
Culture
Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care - New York : Springer, 2013
Defining cultural competency; Patient-focussed cultural assessment models; Why can't the speak our language? Working with culturally diverse colleagues; Cultural considerations when the patient's religious of spiritual needs differ from one's own; Cultural considerations when caring for patients with physical, psychological, or intellectual disabilities; Cultural considerations when the patient speaks a different language; Cultural considerations when caring for the patient who is terminally ill; Cultural considerations when caring for the geographically displaced client; cultural considerations when working with a patient with a sexual orientation the differs from one's own; cultural considerations when caring for the new immigrant or refugee; Cultural considerations when caring for the poor
Offering a how-to approach to the development and application of cultural competency skills in nursing, this text provides numerous techniques for cultural self-assessment and cultural patient assessment. Its unique framework for self-assessment-considered to be a highly important facet of developing culturally competent nursing care--is based on the Cultural Competency Staircase Model, a self-assessment model that was developed by the author who has over 30 years of clinical practice in culturally diverse settings.</p> <p>The text begins by defining cultural competency and describes how nurses can use the Staircase Model to determine their level of cultural competence.
0826193811 9780826193810
Nursing
Nursing Care
Cultural Factors
Culture