What does cultural competence mean? Working in healthcare, you’ve probably heard this term thrown around a lot. In the last few years in particular, cultural competence in nursing has been a hot ...

Cultural competence in healthcare is the ability to offer individualized care that takes these values into account. By providing culturally competent care, ...

Cultural competence requires us to look beyond Western norms and standards to think about what's missing and who is missing. Only then, writes Nicole A. Cooke, can we see the factors that ...

Chapter 1 defines cultural competence as an "attitude and approach of self-awareness of one’s thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and an awareness of oneself as a cultural being" (p. 2).

Collectiveness — in terms of diversity — can lead to understanding within our own inclusive group, but as conflict with other cultural groups. A collective identity guarantees unreserved competence ...

Cultural Competence: The ability to interact effectively with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds by understanding, respecting, and appropriately responding to cultural differences.

For me, cultural competency is powerful. From 2009-2013, I was the Director of Franchising for Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Many may not realize that this brand, ...

Through the following lesson for Singing with Angry Bird, students will understand the significance of cultural competence in cultural exchange projects like the Banana Children’s Choir and ...

As the chamber prepares to launch its second Cultural Competence class later this month, I thought it would be valuable for our readers to see some of the powerful work that is being done in ...