Question

Lack of cultural awareness and failure to provide culturally competent care can impact patients in a negative manner, adding more stress, and resulting in inadequate care provided by nurses. First answer: What makes a nurse culturally competent? Then explain a situation in your practice as a nurse where either cultural competence was at the forefront of care or was lacking..

Answer 1

The following things makes a nurse culturally competent are

• When the nurse treats the patient with respect, dignity and with the full concern by explaining each and every concepts of the care and the patient's wish
• Expressing out services in the manner what the patient follows in their culture
• In simple a nurse communicates in the language the patient knows
• Understanding their diet,beliefs and practices and inculcating it in the routine care which can increase the patient's comfort zone and active cooperation
• It can create a therapeutic relationship

Situations like where a Jehovah's witness has to undergo a blood transfusion as a life saver or preop preparation in case of severe anemia, accidents etc., where the culture stands at the forefront of care in making a decision. In a very extreme stage after educating the necessity of it the close neighbors with patient ,the patient may accept the procedure but with great fear, anxiety ,against their beliefs and practices.