CULTURAL COMPETENCE STRATEGIES

Cultural Competence Strategies

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How can community health nurses apply the strategies of cultural competence to their practice? Provide at least one example from each of the following four strategies: cultural preservation, cultural accommodation, cultural repatterning, and cultural brokering. What is a possible barrier to applying the strategy/example chosen? Use an example that is different than the postings of other students. This example should include an evidence-based article that addresses a cultural issue. Response should include an APA reference.

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Providing culturally competent care means that the caregiver is offering care within the patient’s culture and beliefs context (Holland, 2017). Giving care as a community health nurse needs continuous acquisition of knowledge, skills, and self-assessment; getting competence culturally in nursing is a constant process. A nurse can perform a cultural assessment to identify the values, beliefs, and behaviors of people. Cultural assessment involves asking about ethnic background, food preferences, eating patterns, religious preference, family patterns and health practices (Giger, 2016)…
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