What is cultural competence?

Table of Contents:

1. What is cultural competence?
2. How do you teach cultural competence?
3. How do you become culturally competent in healthcare?
4. How do you address cultural competence?

What is cultural competence?

Cultural competence is the ability to understand, communicate with and effectively interact with. people across cultures. Cultural competence encompasses: • being aware of our own world view: A good place to begin to develop a multicultural.

How do you teach cultural competence?

1. Why Culture Competence Needs to Be Developed in Schools? ...
2. Facilitate Critical Reflection. ...
3. Teach the Importance of Respecting Everyone. ...
4. Put the Library to Good Use. ...
5. Talk about Cultural Norms. ...
6. Take into Consideration Individual Learners. ...
7. Employ Intercultural Communication Skills. ...
8. Create a Conducive Environment.

How do you become culturally competent in healthcare?

Becoming a Culturally Competent Health Care Organization

1. Collect race, ethnicity and language preference (REAL) data.
2. Identify and report disparities.
3. Provide culturally and linguistically competent care.
4. Develop culturally competent disease management programs.
5. Increase diversity and minority workforce pipelines.
6. Involve the community.

How do you address cultural competence?

How to Develop—and Apply—Your Cultural Competence

1. Know your cultural identities and beliefs. ...
2. Get to know the community where you work. ...
3. Get to know your students' families. ...
4. Set the stage for information exchange. ...
5. Gather other professionals into a professional learning community to focus on increasing cultural competence. ...
6. Know your students.