Evaluating Cultural Competence in Healthcare Program: A Report

This report critically analyzes a healthcare program's cultural competence, as discussed in the provided article. The analysis focuses on whether the program effectively addresses cultural barriers, such as communication issues and differing patient beliefs, and if it adequately incorporates cultural adaptation and patient-centered care. The report assesses the program's strengths and weaknesses regarding its approach to cross-cultural communication, and the program's incorporation of ethical principles like beneficence and maleficence. The report also offers two strategic recommendations for enhancing the program's cultural competence. These strategies include implementing evidence-based initiatives to raise awareness about health concerns and developing culturally sensitive informational materials. The analysis utilizes insights from the article to evaluate the program's approach to cultural competence and propose ways to improve patient care.

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Topic: HEALTHCARE
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This paper is a critical appraisal of the article which primarily focuses on the need of
the issues regarding cultural competence among the field of healthcare. Cultural adaptation
have been highlighted here which refers to the experiences, cultural characteristics, as well as
behavioural patterns of a particular population in target. The author has highlighted the issue
of cultural competence in the backdrop of healthcare in a qualitative study. Moreover, the
main cultural barriers in healthcare regarding cross religious opinions have been well justified
and established throughout the paper (Hart & Marino, 2014).
The author has been successful in addressing the sensitive issue of cultural
competence in the healthcare program. This is because the author has clearly highlighted the
concepts of cultural adaptation, cultural receptivity and support of self-efficacy. The author
has also focused on the linguistic barriers which disrupt the effective patient-nurse
relationship and other healthcare professional in the healthcare field (Betancourt, Corbett &
Bondaryk, 2016). Although the clear difference between the principles of patients have not
been highlighted here, the ethical principles of beneficence, maleficence can be easily
distinguished as these are the principles based on which each patient has the right of
surpassing the communication barrier and receive treatment accordingly (Sidhu et al., 2015).
The two strategies highlighted in this article by the author for overcoming cross
cultural barriers in healthcare are evidential strategies and peripheral strategies. Evidential
strategies involve the presentation of epidemiological evidence for raising awareness against
health concerns. The peripheral studies would be focussed at designing a variety of materials
for instance visual information highlighting the cause for increasing the appeal to the group.
Thus these two strategies if incorporated in the health program would reach out to the target
group and include effective communication for removing the barriers to cultural competence
and enhancing the quality of care given to patients (Betancourt et al., 2016).

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