Cultural Competence in Healthcare PDF
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CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTHCARE 1CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTHCARE Name: Course Professor’s name University name City, State Date of submission
CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTHCARE 2IntroductionA rise in the nation’s diversity has brought both challenges and opportunities forhealthcare systems and providers to deliver and create culturally competent services (GHPI,2008, p. 2). Cultural competency is the aptitude of organizations and providers to provide healthcare services efficiently the cultural and social needs of patients. A culturally competent healthcare system aims at improving quality of care and health outcomes by addressing the ethnic andracial health differences (Kaiser, 2003, p. 6). Besides addressing the issues in these disparities, acultural health care system also provides solutions to them in specific ways such as providingoptimal care to patients regardless of people's ethnic backgrounds, race or native languages,cultural and religious beliefs. It is also important to note that the phrase cultural competence wasutilized first by Terry L. Cross together with his associates in 1989. Also, it was used again adecade later where medical care professionals began to gain formal education and training.Cultural competence subsequently developed as an academic field rooted in the remedialeducation program since then. This essay explores how cultural competency can be usedefficiently and in a right manner when dealing with a person of a diverse background. Cultural Values and Privileges Cultural values are categorized as the assumptions, principles or beliefs that control thedecision which people make and the various acts in the society (Walker, 2007, p. 3). Based onstudies conducted, it has been discovered that there is significant agreement about valuesembraced and recognized by a substantial number of Australians although there is no particularvalue system to which all Australians subscribe. These values are classified as either beingdescriptions or prescriptions. Descriptive values are taken to depict an existing reality, reflecting
CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTHCARE 3how things are at present. It is easy to understand the benefits that best describe a particularculture or society undertaking broad observations of actual choices made by individuals as theydo their day to day activities and making interpretations of these options as a replication of theunderlying values. The values are viewed as prescriptions by contrast which is meant to normative or idealstatements should be how things should be done (Reisinger & Dimanche, 2009, p. 122). Thisentails which things are wrong and right and what should be value in the excellent community.Prescriptive and descriptive views often create much confusion, and therefore, becomes hard forthe people to understand and differentiate them. Cultural privileges is a particular right, immunityor advantage which is granted to an individual or a group of people in the country (Vass, 2014).In most cases, the privileges are awarded to those members who belong to a dominant team inthe society. Cultural Competence in the Health Sector Having defined cultural competence and exploring different values and privileges makingup the culture it will be appropriate to determine major cultural competencies in the health sector.The different cultural aspects of competence in the health sector have been illustrated in thefollowing discussion; Individualism Individualism entails the degree of interdependence people maintain among each other(Podrug et al., 2009, p. 2). It involves with whether people's self- image being defined as anindividual or a group of people. People in individualistic societies tend to take care of themselveswith their direct families only while in collective society’s, individuals fit into categories and
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