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Jarvis: Physical Examination & Health Assessment, 6th Edition
Chapter 2: Cultural Competence: Cultural Care
Key Points – Print
This section discusses key points about demographics, nationalstandards, and heritage.
• • In the United States, about one in eight people are immigrants. One in every three residents belongs to a group other than single-race, non-Hispanic White.
• o Ofthis emerging majority, Hispanics are the largest population.
• o The second largest population is Asians followed by Blacks, American Indians, Alaska natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacificislanders.
• o Many new immigrants have little understanding of the modern health care system and medical and nursing practices and interventions. Many also speak and understand little or no English.• • The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care state that health care organizations should ensure that patients receive effective, understandable, andrespectful care in a manner compatible with their cultural health beliefs and practices and their preferred language.
• o When people with limited English proficiency seek health care, servicescannot be denied to them. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• o The most common non-English languages spoken at home are Spanish, Chinese, French, German, and Tagalog.
• • Cultural care isprofessional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and competent. To develop cultural care, you must have knowledge of your personal heritage and the heritage of the nursingprofession, the health care system, and the patient.
• Culturally sensitive- care givers posses some basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes toward the diverse cultural populations found in the settingin which they are practicing.
• Culturally appropriate- caregivers apply the underlying background knowledge that must be possessed to provide a given person with the best possible health care....
Chapter 2: Cultural Competence: Cultural Care
Key Points – Print
This section discusses key points about demographics, nationalstandards, and heritage.
• • In the United States, about one in eight people are immigrants. One in every three residents belongs to a group other than single-race, non-Hispanic White.
• o Ofthis emerging majority, Hispanics are the largest population.
• o The second largest population is Asians followed by Blacks, American Indians, Alaska natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacificislanders.
• o Many new immigrants have little understanding of the modern health care system and medical and nursing practices and interventions. Many also speak and understand little or no English.• • The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care state that health care organizations should ensure that patients receive effective, understandable, andrespectful care in a manner compatible with their cultural health beliefs and practices and their preferred language.
• o When people with limited English proficiency seek health care, servicescannot be denied to them. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• o The most common non-English languages spoken at home are Spanish, Chinese, French, German, and Tagalog.
• • Cultural care isprofessional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and competent. To develop cultural care, you must have knowledge of your personal heritage and the heritage of the nursingprofession, the health care system, and the patient.
• Culturally sensitive- care givers posses some basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes toward the diverse cultural populations found in the settingin which they are practicing.
• Culturally appropriate- caregivers apply the underlying background knowledge that must be possessed to provide a given person with the best possible health care....
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