Cultural Competency
Individual beliefs, values, and behaviors about well-being and health are influenced by various factors such as nationality, ethnicity, race, language, socio-economic status, gender, physical and mental abilities, and occupations. According to Jongen (2017), providers and healthcare organizations can achieve cultural competence in the provision of care if they recognize and assimilate the above factors into care delivery and healthcare systems.
One of the strategies for moving the health care system towards cultural-competence-oriented care includes providing relevant training and education on cross-cultural factors to nurses and establishing and implementing policies that minimize linguistic and administrative barriers to patient care. Providers should be educated on strategies for mutual secondary conditions specific to vulnerable populations. For instance, people with disabilities usually develop distinguishable health conditions secondary to their disabilities, such as obesity, hypertension, UTIs, and pressure ulcers (Jongen, 2017).
Secondly, care competency care can be achieved by implementing “individuation” care interventions. These interventions help nurses consciously observe people based on their appearances rather than groups and acknowledge their stereotypes and biases. These interventions could also be implemented at the system level, establishing systems that promote universal care, such as unbiased delivery of preventive or chronic illnesses management (Jongen, 2017). Third, nurses can develop cultural competence interventions to improve their ability to provide care to patients of opposite races, cultures, or religions. This would help nurses assist patients and other nurses from diverse groups to circumnavigate the relationship between patients pro, providers, and the entire health system.
Reference
Jongen, C. (2017). Cultural Competence in Health: A Review of the Evidence. New York: Springer.
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Question 
Cultural Competency
Cultural competency means to be respectful and responsive to the health beliefs and practices—and cultural and linguistic needs—of diverse population groups. Discuss strategies to provide care to patients from different cultures with different cultural beliefs. For example, what might the APN do if the patient refuses a high-quality, evidence-based treatment to cure the illness because of cultural beliefs? How can the APN respect cultural beliefs while still providing quality care? How can the nurse do more than simply “not harm?”