TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kersey-Matusiak, Gloria (ed)
TI  - Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care
SN  - 0826193811
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Nursing Care
KW  - Cultural Factors
KW  - Culture
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -