Question

Describe a time when you witnessed or experienced cultural incompetence in the delivery of health care. Knowing what you now know, discuss what you think could have been done to avoid that incident?

Answer 1

Witness cultural incompetence:

1. Failure to apply cultural care

2. Lakh of culltural knowledge

3. Deficiency of cultural skills

4. No cultural desire.

5. failure to have cultural encounter.

Avoid cultural incompetence:

1. Awareness: are you aware of bias?

2. Skill: do you know how to conduct cultural assessment.

3. Knowledge: do you know how to apply cultural knowledge?

4. Encounter: encounter cross cultural conflict?

5. Desire: do you want to become culturally competent?.