Cultural Competency Flashcards
What type of knowledge about cultural competency is beneficial?
- Cultural beliefs
- Cultural practices
- Disparities in Incidence
- Disparities in Occurance
What are the goals of cultural competency?
- Knowledge
- Attitude
- Skills
(True or False) Breast cancer is less frequent but more fatal in African American women than it is in Caucasian women.
True
(True or False) African American men have a later onset of prostate cancer than other ethnic groups.
False. They have an earlier onset than other ethnic groups.
What are some attitudinal objectives?
- Understanding the importance of cultural issues in an optimal healthcare delivery
- Awareness of others having both similar and dissimilar characteristics
- Developing comfort with issue of difference
- Increasing self-awareness in dealing with cross-cultural situations
- Developing an ability to acknowledge issues that include stereotyping and bias
- Avoiding the presumption of understanding without asking.
(True or False) In a given large metropolitan area it is imperative to acknowledge, and respond to the social diversity encountered in the daily delivery of service in the healthcare arena.
True
How might one respond to social diversity?
Incorporate cultural knowledge and cultural sensitive attitudes into the delivery of healthcare
What are some skills objectives in cultural competency?
- Integrate knowledge and attitudes by demonstrating respect and validating other cultures
- Applying knowledge and attitudes to discover the cultural context of the healthcare problems as well as the patients needs
- Adapting communication skills to situations in which English is not a first language
- Demonstrating proficiency in the use of an interpreter
- In order to achieve optimal healthcare outcome consider the influence of culture on all aspects including problem solving, diagnosis, management, and treatment.
