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Delivering culturally competent nursing care /

Kersey-Matusiak, Gloria,

Delivering culturally competent nursing care / Gloria Kersey-Matusiak. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 284 pages)

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.

9780826193827 082619382X

210CB211-3745-491B-8909-A5CBCD553C80 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com

016230318 Uk


Transcultural medical care.
Cultural competence.
Nursing.
Clinical competence.
Cultural pluralism.

HM793 / .K47 2013eb

610.73

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