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Cultural Competence in Healthcare (pdf)

   

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Running head: CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTHCARE 1Cultural Competence in HealthcareStudent’s nameInstitutional affiliation
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CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTHCARE 2Mind MappingFamily Name, Initials. Student number. HSC230 Assessment 1Values1. Confidentiality2. Integrity3. Empathy4. ResilienceBehavioursMe1.I respect every person.2.I am empathetic.3.I am resilient.4. I ppreciate each person's cultureBeliefs1.Appreciating other people's cultures is important.2.There should be no discrimination of any form.3. Every person deserves respect and care.4. There is beauty in diversity.
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CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTHCARE 3ReflectionDiversity within a nation brings with it both opportunities and challenges in the healthcare system. It has become increasingly important for the providers of care, the policy makersand the health care systems to embrace cultural competence in provision of services (Jeffreys,2015). According to Ang and Van (2015), cultural competence can be defined as possession of the qualities and ability to provide healthcare services that are effective and that meet the social and cultural needs of the patient. When healthcare providers are culturally competent, there is a high likelihood of improvement of health outcomes and quality of care. It can also lead to a significant elimination of health disparities that result from racial and ethnic differences. This paper reflects my values, beliefs and behaviours and how they contribute or may detract me from being a culturally safe practitioner in a multicultural healthcare environment.Personal values affect the cultural competence of a healthcare provider, either positively or negatively. I have mastered the art of confidentiality. In my day to day life, I endeavour to maintain confidentiality of information revealed to me. This means that I do notshare such information without the go ahead of involved parties or where such revealing will be a breach of confidentiality. I believe that this is a positive attribute and would improve my cultural competence while offering care to patients. As Shen (2015) observes confidentiality is likely to make a patient trust the health care provider and reveal even more information thatis necessary for optimal care. I also possess the value and quality of integrity. Being honest leads to more trust in human relations (Han and Cho, 2015). Consequently, this would be a great contributor to cultural competence in a multicultural setting since it would mean that I am providing the patients with truthful information in every step of the care process. This is in turn likely to improve the health outcomes and quality of care. Resilience is another quality that I would boast of but only to a certain extent. I do persist in carrying on with an activity even if there seems to be little success, but after some time I tend to give up. This is an attribute that would reduce my cultural competence since sometimes events in healthcare provision would need resilience. For instance, when dealing with a patient who takes quite some time to grasp information, resilience would be a key factor to promote successful health education. As such it is a key value in ensuring cultural competence when working with people from different backgrounds (Gallagher and Polanin, 2015). The fourth value to be discussed will be empathy. In my interaction with people, I Family Name, Initials. Student number. HSC230 Assessment 1
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