Cultural Competence in Organizations
Cultural competence is the interaction of different individuals of different cultures, social and economic backgrounds, in business organizations, government agencies, non-profit organizations and human resource departments. It incorporates four essential and fundamental concepts: consciousness of perception on culture, differences attitude regarding culture, information on cultural practices and perception and skills regarding cross-culture.

Cultural competence is the interaction of different individuals of different cultures, social and economic backgrounds, in business organizations, government agencies, non-profit organizations and human resource departments. It incorporates four essential and fundamental concepts: consciousness of perception on culture, differences attitude regarding culture, information on cultural practices and perception and skills regarding cross-culture. The development of cultural competence can assist in ensuring that people of different culture can effectively interact, understand and communicate with one another.

Background

In order to understand the concept of cultural competence, it is essential to understand the word culture. Culture is defined as the…...

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References:

Fernandez, J.P. (2011). Managing a Diverse Workforce. Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company.

Cultural Competence
Culturally competent care

Cultural competence and the Old age homes

The basic knowledge in nursing or medical studies in itself is not enough. As Watson puts it, there is need to instill the humanistic aspect into the career or the profession. Watson believes that the nurse must establish a caring relationship with patients, display unconditional acceptance of the patient with whatever condition they are in, treat patients as holistic beings, treat patients with a positive regard, promote health through knowledge and intervention treat patients with a positive regard as well as spend uninterrupted time with patients she calls "caring moments" (Vanguard Health Systems, 2011).

In order to effectively achieve and implement the ideas in Watson's theory on culturally competent care, it is important to critically look at the cultural diversity especially among the aging American population. The cultural diversity among the old is considered to be one of the biggest challenges alongside…...

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References

American Speech-language Hearing Association (ASHA), (2011). Culture Change in Nursing

Homes: Pioneer Network Food and Dining Clinical Standards Task Force Summary. Retrieved July 6, 2013 from  http://www.asha.org/SLP/clinical/dysphagia/Culture-Change-in-Nursing-Homes/ 

Larry Purnell, (2005). The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence. The Journal of Multicultural

Nursing and Health, 11:2 summer. Retrieved July 10, 2013 from  http://midwestclinicians.org/SharedCHCPolicies/Policies_Forms/Cultural%20Competency/PURNELL%27S%20MODEL.pdf

Cultural Competence Health Practioner Assessment for Nurses
In this situation, the nurse must be very kind, gentle, and firm in emphasizing to the parents that urinating on a newborn baby is fairly harmful to the health and the life of the infant. In attempting to convey these sentiments, the nurse must essentially assume the role of a teacher. Firstly, he or she should explain that he or she realizes that in the native culture of the parents, such a practice is normal and probably a good tradition. However, the nurse must carefully explain that there are a number of noxious conditions that urine and such unclean bacteria can transmit. The nurse should also explain that newborn infants are particularly susceptible to diseases, infections, and other forms of maladies -- especially during their first several hours of life. Urinating on a newborn actually worsens, not increases, its chances for a healthy life.…...

There are also some generalizations that do not include all, but some, Puerto ican culture: conversations are usually very interactive and full of interruptions. Interruptions mean interest in the subject discussed; silence denotes disinterest rather than paying close attention. If someone is talking to someone else and a third person joins in, the people talking are expected to stop what they are saying and acknowledge the newcomer. Also, it is rude for a man to dance too close to a woman who is not his wife or girlfriend, even if others seem to be doing it. It is considered vulgar and ostentatious to open gifts in public. Gifts are never opened in front of a group of people to avoid people comparing the merits of different gifts.
One of the main areas of differences between cultures is in nonverbal communication. If people are not aware of these differences, there can…...

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Brislin, R., Cushner, K., Cherrie, C. & Young, M. Intercultural interactions: A practical guide. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1986.

Galanti, Geri-Ann. The Challenge of Serving and Working with Diverse Populations in American Hospitals. (2001) Diversity Factor, 9.3: 21-26

Garrison, E., Roy, I., & Azar, V. Responding to the mental health needs of Latino children and families through school-based services. (1999). Clinical Psychology Review, 19, 199-219.

Lum, Doman (Ed). Culturally Competent Practice: A Framework for Understanding Diverse Groups and Justice Issues. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 2003).

Cultural Competence
Nursing, like any of the fields within the medical professions, requires a wide-ranging set of skills. Some of these can be seen as purely technical, such as knowing how to triage a patient coming into an emergency department or how to ensure that anti-infection and anti-contagion processes are being followed. In addition to these skills, nurses must also be able to connect to their patients on a personal level, helping to alleviate the stress and fear that so often accompany medical procedures. Part of this latter set of skills requires nurses to be culturally competent, a phrase that is relatively new to the profession although nurses have been aware of the importance of this perspective on an informal level for generations. The fact that it now has a name, however, is an indicator that cultural competence is now increasingly important to the profession.

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References

Bridging the Health Care Gap through Cultural Competency Continuing Education Programs. Retrieved from  http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org 

Diversity in Practice: Becoming Culturally Competent. Retrieved from  http://www.centre4activeliving.ca/publications/wellspring/2006/oct/oct06.pdf 

University of Michigan Program For Multicultural Health. Retrieved from http://www.med.umich.edu/multicultural/ccp/tools.htm.

Cultural Competence and Ethics Community Research and Intervention Methods Before Referencing
Research methods, definitions of community, and informed consent processes are all marked by complexities in knowledge, culture, changing conditions and other factors, that present challenges to the field of community interventions and research approaches. Please discuss several of these complexities and offer a reflection on the strengths or weaknesses of various ways to deal with them.

According to Meredith Minkler, Nina allerstein, and Budd Hall's text entitled Community-Based Participatory Research for Health, research initiatives designed to promote community health must take into consideration the unique needs of the population the study is designed to address. Attempting to eradicate AIDS in a population of IV drug users may require different forms of preventative care than a gay population, for example. Ethnic groups may put up cultural barriers to talking about sexually transmitted diseases and sexuality in general that researchers may not initially…...

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Works Cited

Beauchamp, T. And Childress, J. (2001). Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Oxford University Press.

Minkler, M., Nina Wallerstein, & Budd Hall. (2003). Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. Josey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.

Instead, the doctor or nurse must obey the same ethical principle in all cases. They must uphold their moral duty to save the lives of all of their patients, and dispense the highest quality care they can conceivably give under the circumstances.
However, while the Kantian ethics of duty might be useful when making individual moral decisions for healthcare practitioners, the idea of utilitarianism popularized by John Stuart Mill and Jeremy entham sometimes must prevail in the system as a whole, given that health care is dispensed in a world of finite, scarce resources (Mautner, 2004). Utilitarianism stresses the utility, or usefulness of every moral action for society, not simply the individual patient. For example, although it might be optimal for the individual to receive all the possible screening tests for every conceivable medical ailment, health care insurance companies will only pay for screenings deemed to be of a great…...

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Beauchamp, T. And Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford University Press,

Mautner, Thomas. "Utilitarianism." The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy. 2004. 29 Jan 2008.  http://www.utilitarianism.com/utilitarian.htm 

Minkler, M. & Nina Wallerstein. Community-Based Participatory Research for Health

Josey-Bass, San Francisco, CA 2003

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The web page on the website Health esources and Services Administration has its own guidelines for cultural competency on behalf of health care providers. The domain that deals specifically with the patient population at Hospice House are People with Disabilities. Those with dementia make up just such a population at the Hospice House (Hrsa.gov., 2012). This treatment of the population with its special needs would help the staff deal with the increase in the number of unusual occurrence reports that have centered on difficult

combative behavior by patients who have been recently admitted to Hospice House. Obviously, something has changed in the population regarding their special needs. In this case, special emphasis will be need to be placed upon servicing the changing needs of this population in order to deal with the spike in incidents of combative behavior between the staff and the patients. In such a case, being culturally…...

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References

Hrsa.gov. (2012). Culture, Language and Health Literacy. Available:

Last accessed 25 Mar. 2012.http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/index.html.

Purnell, L. (2002). The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. 1

(3), pp. 193-196.

"Culturally different clients are clients who racial, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, and/or religious backgrounds and/or identities are different from the healthcare professional or student…[healthcare students must learn cultural competence] so that quality outcomes indicators such as enhanced client satisfaction and positive health outcomes may be achieved." (Jeffreys, p. 24)
Nursing is definitely not the only profession demanding cultural competence; it has also become an important part of skills required of a good business manager. In fact every person who is working in a multicultural environment must know the value of cultural competence because it helps in facilitating communication and improves effectiveness. For example in an educational setting, a teacher who doesn't understand the culture of his students may find it difficult to connect with them and hence his effectiveness might decline. With a cultural competent teacher, students "feel accepted, engaged and safe…they become interested in class community and more responsive to…...

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References

M. Diane Klein and Deborah Chen (2000) Working with Children from Culturally Diverse. Delmar Cengage Learning; 1 edition (November 7, 2000)

Marianne R. Jeffreys. Teaching cultural competence in nursing and health care Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (June 19, 2006)

Dana Haight Cattani. A Classroom of Her Own: How New Teachers Develop Instructional, Professional, and Cultural Competence. Corwin Press; 1 edition (June 15, 2002)

Lynch EW, Hanson MJ (1992)Developing Cross-Cultural Competence -- A Guide for Working with Young Children and Their Families. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company.

" (a Manager's Guide to Cultural Competence Education for Health Care Professionals, nd) Cultural competence is a development process as no individual "becomes culturally competent overnight or with one or two hours of training." (a Manager's Guide to Cultural Competence Education for Health Care Professionals, nd) Cultural competence training is stated to involve "attitude changes and the examining of personal biases and stereotypes as an initial step to acquiring the skills and competencies necessary for quality cross-cultural care." (a Manager's Guide to Cultural Competence Education for Health Care Professionals, nd)
The Kaiser Family Foundation (2003) states in the work entitled: "Compendium of Cultural Competence Initiatives in Health Care" that cultural competency faces challenges which include: (1) the lack of agreement on the terms, definitions and core approaches; (2) limited research on impact and effectiveness; (3) a misperception that the activities are focused exclusively on people of color, rather than also on…...

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Foley, R. And Wurmser, T.A. (2004) Culture Diversity/a Mobile Workforce Command Creative Leadership, New Partnerships, and Innovative Approaches to Integration. Nursing Administration Quarterly, Vol. 28 (2) April/May 2004.

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians. 3 Aug 2004. Vol. 141 Issue 3. Annals of Internal Medicine. Online available at  http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/141/3/226 

Like, Robert C. (nd) Cultural Competency Training: Best and Promising Practices. Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity. Department of Family Medicine UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Outline
Brief Overview: Introduce the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence, developed by Larry Purnell.

Importance: Emphasize its relevance in enhancing cultural sensitivity and competence, particularly in healthcare settings.

Thesis Statement: "This essay explores the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence, examining its structure, components, and its crucial role in fostering effective cross-cultural

Title: "The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence: A Framework for Enhancing Healthcare Delivery"

Introduction

In an increasingly diverse world, cultural competence in healthcare is more critical than ever. The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence, developed by Dr. Larry Purnell, is a pivotal framework designed to guide healthcare professionals in delivering culturally sensitive and appropriate care. This essay delves into the structure, components, and significance of the Purnell Model, demonstrating its importance in promoting effective cross-cultural communication and care.

The Genesis and Overview of the Purnell Model

Larry Purnell's Model for Cultural Competence emerged as a response to the growing need for healthcare providers to deliver culturally competent…...

Health
Cultural competence: What does this really mean to health care professionals?

Cultural Competency is a significant issue that faces health care providers today. It is important for organizations to have and utilize polices, trained and skilled employees and resources to foresee, distinguish and respond to a variety of expectations in language, cultural and religion of members and health care providers. Health literacy takes place when there is shared understanding between healthcare providers or anyone communicating health information and patients. Joint understanding is not just good medicine; it is also a right and responsibility (Health Literacy and Cultural Competency Provider Tool Kit, 2008).

Addressing disparities in health care and health results is more and more becoming a main concern on national and state levels. The Department of Health is dedicated to generating health justness and devoted to endorsing cultural competency among health care providers, to enhance affirmative results for all people, regardless of…...

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References

Cultural Competence. (2008). Retrieved from http://www.culturediversity.org/cultcomp.htm

Cultural Competency in Health Services and Care. (2010). Retrieved from  http://www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/professions/Publications/documents/CulturalComp.pdf 

Health Literacy and Cultural Competency Provider Tool Kit. (2008). Retrieved from  http://www.bcbst.com/providers/08-538CulturalCompProvToolKit.pdf

We are more than welcome to assist any client who has trouble understanding anything. However, we do not offer to meet with clients whose first language is not English to decipher communications that they might not understand. Making this effort goes a long way toward promoting client health and well being.
We do have bilingual staff but Spanish is the only language besides English that is well-represented. It would be more helpful to hire people who have some command of other languages that our clients might speak. One of the areas I believe we do well in is sensitivity to diverse views of family and health. We allow extended members of the family to visit and consult with them too. I understand that people from different cultures grieve differently, too. Finally, I would be better off reading peer-reviewed journal articles as to the most current best practices that take cultural…...

Culural Competence |
Cultural Competence in the Criminal Justice System

Culture determines people's experiences of their world. It is important in the reception and delivery of services. Cultural competence starts with knowing your cultural practices and beliefs, and recognizing the different practices and values of people from different cultures. This goes beyond speaking a different language, or just acknowledging a different group's cultural icons. Cultural competence involves changing your biases or prejudgments on a different people's cultural traditions or beliefs (Continuing Education Online, 2002-2016).

Cultural competence, therefore, can be described as a group of attitudes and behavior within a culture. These attitudes and behavior are incorporated into the methods of practice of an agency, system or its experts, and helps them work productively under cross-cultural circumstances. To successfully achieve cultural competency, knowledge about groups and individuals must be incorporated and translated into certain practices and rules applied in suitable cultural settings. Professionals with…...

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Nursing: Cultural Competence, Sensitivity and Empowerment
Cultural Competence, Sensitivity and Empowerment: Nursing

The changing demographics of the modern-day multicultural world are increasingly challenging healthcare professionals to consider cultural diversity as a priority in the health sector. Being able to deliver effective care to patients from diverse backgrounds begins with understanding the values, beliefs, and customs associated with different cultures. This text summarizes the writer's experience in a Native American powwow, and explores the effect of the Native American culture on the nursing profession.

Nursing: Cultural Competence, Sensitivity and Empowerment

Diversity is a word that perhaps means something different to each and every individual (Campinha-Bacote, 2003). What is for sure, however, is that the changing demographics of the modern-day multicultural world have, and continue to challenge healthcare professionals to consider cultural diversity as a fundamental concern in the health sector. The U.S. population is projected to reach 400 million by 2050, and estimates show that…...

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Title: Embracing Diversity in the Workplace: A Catalyst for Growth and Innovation

Introduction:
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, workplace diversity is no longer a mere aspiration but a business imperative. Organizations that embrace diversity reap numerous benefits, including enhanced productivity, better decision-making, and increased innovation. This essay delves into the importance of workplace diversity, exploring the various dimensions of diversity, the challenges organizations face in promoting diversity, and the strategies they can implement to create a more inclusive and diverse workplace.

Body:

1. The Significance of Workplace Diversity:
Workplace diversity goes beyond race, gender, and ethnicity. It encompasses various dimensions, including age, socioeconomic background,....

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Expanded Thesis Statement:

Lexical borrowing is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the world's languages, driven by historical, social, and cultural factors. It plays a crucial role in shaping linguistic landscapes, facilitating communication, and fostering cultural exchange. This thesis will explore the multifaceted nature of lexical borrowing, examining its impact on language and culture, the mechanisms through which it occurs, and the implications it....

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I. Introduction
A. Definition of counselor identity
B. Importance of counselor identity in the counseling profession

II. Personal characteristics of a counselor
A. Empathy and compassion
B. Non-judgmental attitude
C. Active listening skills

III. Professional skills and knowledge
A. Counseling theories and techniques
B. Ethical guidelines and professional boundaries
C. Cultural competence and diversity awareness

IV. Roles and responsibilities of a counselor
A. Facilitator of change and personal growth
B. Confidentiality and privacy maintenance
C. Collaborating with clients and other professionals

V. Challenges and ethical considerations in counselor identity
A. Self-care and managing personal biases
B. Maintaining boundaries while building rapport with clients
C.....