Cultural competency in workplace

Cultural competency is the ability to work efficiently and effectively with people from diverse ethnic, cultural, political, economical and religious backgrounds. It is being concscious and respectful of one’s values, beliefs, traditions, and customs while remaining non-judgmental or biased. Additionally, cultural competency is about developing skills to improve one’s ability to control or change personal…

Case study: Nursing Homes

1. Examine service categories commonly provided by nursing homes. Determine two specific service categories that you believe are common factors of competition among nursing homes. Justify your response. 2. Analyze the main service area factors for healthcare organizations factors. (The service area profile includes key competitively relevant economic, demographic, psychographic (lifestyle), and community health status…

Barriers to healthcare issues

Identify a barrier or issue in health care that you want to address through your Capstone Project Paper. Perform a literature review on the barrier or issue using the GCU Library. Present 8-10 peer-reviewed primary research articles. These articles should be either qualitative or quantitative. You may use either health care or nursing peer-reviewed journals;…

Nurse as an advocate for providing cultural competent care

Question 1 The nurse is disappointed with not being able to provide educational materials in a non-English-speaking patient’s primary language.What can the nurse do to serve as an advocate when providing  culturally competent care? 1. Find or create materials to meet the patients’ needs. 2. Teach the patient in English. 3. Provide educational materials written…