Course Summary
A person’s culture affects the person’s beliefs, values and norms. These beliefs, values and norms impact how a person acts towards others and in specific circumstances. As such, a healthcare professional and patient may come from different cultural perspectives, which will invariably impact how they act within a healthcare setting. The purpose of cultural competency is to educate healthcare professionals on barriers to healthcare that arise from cultural differences. These barriers can impact the delivery of healthcare and the quality of health outcomes. Health teams that value diversity and share a commitment to multicultural competency can help promote health equity and minimize health disparity
Course Format
Homestudy
Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- Multicultural Competency
- Statistical Measures and Healthcare Trends
- Mental Illness and Disparity
- Racial Disparity and Gender Disparity
- Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer (LGBTQ+)
- Military Members and Veterans’s HealthReligion
- Elderly and Children
- Disabled People
- Cross-cultural Communication and Transcultural Models of Healthcare
- LEARN Model Communication Tips
- Transcultural Nursing and Nursing Theory
- Leininger’s Sunrise Model
- Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model
- Purnell Model for Cultural Competence
- Campinha-Bacote Model
- Applying Theory in Everyday Practice
- Case Study: Transgender Female-to-Male
- Discussion
- Summary
Authors
Dana Bartlett, RN, BSN, MSN, MA, CSPI
Dana Bartlett is a professional nurse and author. His clinical experience includes 16 years of ICU and ER experience and over 27 years as a poison control center information specialist. Dana has published numerous CE and journal articles, written NCLEX material, textbook chapters, and more than 100 online CE articles, and done editing and reviewing for publishers such as Elsevier, Lippincott, and Thieme. He has written widely on the subject of toxicology and was a contributing editor, toxicology section, for Critical Care Nurse journal. He is currently employed at the Connecticut Poison Control Center. He lives in Wappingers Falls, NY.
Sarah Schulze, MSN, APRN, CPNP
Sarah Schulze is a board certified pediatric nurse practitioner and professional medical content writer. She earned her BSN from Indiana State University and her MSN from University of Illinois at Chicago. In clinical practice as an RN and NP, she has experience in a variety of settings; including critical care, PACU, pediatrics, mental health, and lactation support. She currently owns and operates a private practice providing outpatient mental health services to children and adolescents. As a writer, she has developed content for many CEU courses, medical apps, health education curricula, NCLEX study materials, health blogs, and more.
