Delivering culturally competent nursing care / Gloria Kersey-Matusiak.

By:

Kersey-Matusiak, Gloria [author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780826193827
082619382X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

610.73 23

LOC classification:

HM793 .K47 2013eb

NLM classification:

WY 16.1

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EBSCOhost (requires login)

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.

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.