cultural competence frameworks - week 4

Question 1

Views cultural competence as an ongoing process rather than something you become.

the health care provider continuously strives to achieve
the ability to effectively work within the cultural context of
the client (individual, family, community).

Process – something you are continually doing

Answer 1

Compinha-Bacote framework process

Question 2

1. Cultural Awareness
2. Cultural knowledge
3. Cultural skill
4. Cultural encounters
5. Cultural desire

Answer 2

Compinha-Bacote framework process

Question 3

is the tendency of an individual to impose their beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on another culture

Answer 3

cultural imposition

Question 4

in-depth exploration of one’s own cultural and professional background.

This process involves the recognition of one’s biases, prejudices, and assumptions about individuals who are different.

Answer 4

cultural awareness

Question 5

health-related beliefs and values: involves understanding their worldview. The client’s worldview will explain how he/she interprets his/her illness and how it guides his thinking,doing, and being

Answer 5

cultural knowledge (2)

Question 6

Seeking and obtaining a sound educational foundation

Focus this knowledge on three specific areas:

• Health related -beliefs/cultural values
• Disease incidence and prevalence
• Treatment efficacy

Everyone is still an individual!

Answer 6

cultural knowledge

Question 7

health care provider must address when obtaining cultural knowledge. This requires obtaining accurate epidemiological data to guide decisions about treatment, health education, screening, and treatment programs.

Answer 7

disease incidence and prevalence for cultural knowledge

Question 8

obtaining knowledge in such areas as ethnic pharmacology. Ethnic pharmacology is the study of variations in drug metabolism among ethnic groups

Answer 8

treatment efficacy in cultural knowledge

Question 9

it is critical to remember that no individual is a stereotype of one’s culture of origin but rather a unique blend of the diversity found within each culture, a uniqueaccumulation of life experiences, and the process of acculturation to other cultures. Therefore, the health care provider must develop the ability to conduct a cultural assessment with each client.

Answer 9

cultural knowledge (3)

Question 10

An ability to collect culturally relevant data while accurately performing a culturally based physical assessment

Answer 10

cultural skill

Question 11

a “systematic appraisal or examination of individuals, groups, and communities as to their cultural beliefs, values, and practices
to determine explicit needs and intervention practices within the context of the people being served”

Answer 11

cultural skill

Question 12

The health care provider should know how a client’s physical, biological, and physiological variations influence her ability to conduct an accurate and appropriate physical evaluation. Examples include differences in body structure, skin color, visible physical characteristics, and laboratory variances.

Answer 12

cultural skill (2)

Question 13

A process that encourages health care providers to directly engage in cross-cultural interactions with clients from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Learn by doing

Assessment of Linguistic needs
-Select either frequent, moderate, infrequent, or none for interactions with each population.

Answer 13

cultural encounters

Question 14

Motivation of the healthcare provider to WANT to become culturally competent

includes. ..
1. Passion for being flexible and open
2. Accept difference and build on similarities
3. Willing to learn from others

Answer 14

cultural desire

Question 15

not thinking yours’s is the absolute best (ethnocentrism)
- Scared of another (xenophobia)

lifelong learning process

Answer 15

cultural humility

Question 16

involves the concept of caring. It has been said that people don’t care how much you know, until they first know how much you care (Campinha-Bacote, 1999). It is not enough for the health care provider to merely say they respect a client’s values, beliefs, and practices or to go through the motions.

Answer 16

culture desire (2)