Question

Discuss how you integrate the concept of "cultural humility" in nursing practice?

Answer 1

Ans) Cultural humility is the “ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the [person].”

- Cultural humility is necessary for all nurses in order to provide the best quality patient care. It is a life-long process of self-reflection and self-critique, which allows nurses to examine differences and similarities between their own beliefs, values, and health care goals with those of their patients humility helps nurses to recognize potential differences in the meaning of health and wellness among their patients, and to begin to understand the many challenges to accessing quality health care.

- Cultural immersion programs is one educational strategy to allow nursing students to develop cultural humility through acquiring critical thinking skills, feelings of self-efficacy, and a global nursing perception.