Cultural competences

A R FA N A D E E M
NURSING INSTRUCTOR
ALIGARH COLLEGE OF NURSING
objectives
1. Define cultural competence.
2. Discuss barriers to cultural competence.
3. Explain suggestions of data collection about culture.
4. Describe trans culture assessment model
 Cultural competences
Cultural competence is the ability of an individual to understand and respect
values, attitudes, beliefs, and mores that differ across cultures, and to consider
and respond appropriately to these differences in planning, implementing, and
evaluating health education and promotion programs and interventions
 Six key barriers for cross-cultural communications

1- Ethnocentrism.
2- Stereotyping.
3- Psychological barriers.
4- Language barriers.
5- Geographical distance.
6- Conflicting values.
Trans culture assessment model
The Transcultural Assessment Model of Giger and Davidhizars is a tool developed to assess
cultural values of patients about health and disease behaviors and their effects. The model
contains six cultural dimensions:
Communication
Space
Social Organizations
Time
Environmental Control
Biological Variations
Purpose of transcultural nursing
The Transcultural Nursing Theory or Culture Care
Theory by Madeleine Leininger involves knowing and
understanding different cultures concerning nursing
and health-illness caring practices, beliefs, and
values to provide meaningful and efficacious nursing
care services to people's cultural values health-illness
context
 Components of cultural assessment
It includes five domains
cultural awareness
cultural desire
cultural knowledge
cultural skill
cultural encounters
Principle of cultural assessment
Principle of culture assessment
Respect the patient values
Confidential the information
Prefer the patient choice
Ensure the patient privacy
Culturally congruent care
Communication pattern
Non verbal communication
Time
Social roles