Question

Describe the 7 aspects of culturally competent nursing care.

Answer 1

The culturally competent nursing care is needed to be applied in special cases to provide a quality care.

Some of the aspects to be considered in the competent nursing care are

• Cultural awareness : the nurse should be aware of her own culture before getting to know patients culture
• Cultural knowledge : the nurse has to gain or gather adequate information about the different type of culture and the dthinic practices
• Cultural skill: every culture are different do a nurse has go develop it accordingly
• Cultural encounter: deals with how a nurse responds to particular situations
• Cultural desire:to accept and to respect different culture
• Cultural attitudes : every person have different attitudes and so their culture which the nurse should understand
• Cultural adaptance: patient naturally gets adapted to their culture easily so to make care at ease delivery this has to be understood by the nurse.