A community health nurse is working in a large urban city, situated in a culturally diverse area of the country. What does the nurse need to do to be culturally competent

Question

A) Recognize that people with cultural backgrounds different from our own have unique values, life ways, health practices, and interpersonal styles.
B) Understand and address the total context of the client's situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
C) Be aware that people adapt to and borrow traits from another culture and change their own cultural patterns to those of the host society.
D) Remember that an individual's own traditional beliefs and practices of their culture must always be observed.

Answer 1

Ans: A
Being culturally competent means that we understand how cultural beliefs and practices influence our daily lives and recognize that people with cultural backgrounds different from our own have unique values, life ways, health practices, and interpersonal styles. Cultural appropriateness occurs when a nurse understands and addresses the total context of the client's situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills. Cultural acculturation is being aware that people adapt to and borrow traits from another culture and change their own cultural patterns to those of the host society. Heritage consistency relates to the observance of beliefs and practices of an individual's traditional cultural system that may be observed.