10 commandments of cultural competence

Question 1

cultural competence

Answer 1

ability to deliver culturally appropriate and specifically tailored care to patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors

ongoing process

focus on health care provider (YOU)

Question 2

culturally congruent care

Answer 2

provision of care that is MEANINGFUL and fits with the CULTURAL beliefs and lifeways of OTHERS

focus on recipient of care (patient)

Question 3

1 though shall not be ethnocentric ( you are right they are wrong)

Answer 3

ethnocentrism: belief that one’s own ways are the best, most superior, or preferred ways to act believe, or behave

Question 4

2 thou shall not stereotype (known holding knowledge)

Answer 4

stereotyping: classifying or placing people into a narrow, fixed view with rigid, or inflexible, transcultural nursing: essential nursing knowledge boxlike characteristics

actively strive to discover and address own implicit bias

Question 5

3 thou shall not discriminate

Answer 5

discrimination: Overt or covert actions or ways that limit opportunities, choices, or life experiences of others based on feeling or biases

EX: not hiring or promoting based off their race

Question 6

4 thou shall conduct cultural assessment

Answer 6

with every single client
simple and quick
in-depth

ALWAYS ASK: what do I need to know about you to provide the best care possible

Question 7

5 thou shall not be culturally blind

Answer 7

• inability of an individual to understand another culture mainly because of an inability to recognize or see one’s own lifestyle, values, and modes of acting as those based largely on prejudices and ethnocentric and biased tendencies.

Question 8

6 thou shall not engage in cultural imposition

Answer 8

-the tendency of an individual or group to impose their beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on another culture for varied reasons

Question 9

7 thou shall not cause cultural pain

Answer 9

-suffering, discomfort, or being greatly offended by an individual or group who shows a great lack of sensitivity toward another’s cultural experiences (disregarded belief)

Question 10

8 thou shall value cultural diversity

Answer 10

• variations and differences among and between cultural groups resulting from differences in lifeways, language, values, norms, expressions, and other cultural aspects (same values)

Question 11

9 thou shall respect cultural values, beliefs, and practices

Answer 11

asking questions (cultural assessment) or google (acquiring holding knowledge)

Question 12

10 thou shall provide culturally congruent integrative and collaborative care

Answer 12

bridging knowledge-

through integration of generic and professional care practices

via use of leininger’s culture care modes:
culture care preservation (encourage walk) and maintenance (loves fried chicken and chips and motorcycle without helmet

culture care accommodation (nurse practice-try to accommodate family) and or negotiation (patient practice-eat baked chicken with no skin)

culture care repatterning and restructuring (motorcycle without helmet-education)