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Delivering culturally competent nursing care [E-Book]

By: Publication details: New York : Springer Pub. Co., 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826193827
  • 082619382X
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WY 16.1
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Halftitle; About the author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword by Dula F. Pacquiao, EdD, RN, CTN; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BUILDING CULTURAL COMPETENCY SKILLS; 1. Defi ning Cultural Competency; 2. Patient-Focused Cultural Assessment Models; 3. Why Can't They Speak Our Language? Working With Culturally Diverse Colleagues; PART II: STEPPING UP TO CULTURAL COMPETENCY; 4. Cultural Considerations When the Patient's Religious or Spiritual Needs Differ From One's Own.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Halftitle; About the author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword by Dula F. Pacquiao, EdD, RN, CTN; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BUILDING CULTURAL COMPETENCY SKILLS; 1. Defi ning Cultural Competency; 2. Patient-Focused Cultural Assessment Models; 3. Why Can't They Speak Our Language? Working With Culturally Diverse Colleagues; PART II: STEPPING UP TO CULTURAL COMPETENCY; 4. Cultural Considerations When the Patient's Religious or Spiritual Needs Differ From One's Own.

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.

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