As you may know, providing patient care is not only assisting in someone’s health but serving and trying to understand the patient's point of view. As a Medical provider, you have to build trust with the patient so they can feel comfortable in communicating and sharing their diverse culture. Demonstrating knowledge of the different cultures in a clinical or hospital setting provides a better quality in the health care services. Being able to balance the different demands of every patient can be challenging but it is something that every health care setting is able to provide professional assistance to a number of patients. The ability to share and offer culture competency to patients is extremely important so barriers can be broken. When …show more content…
There are people who are able to open up about they’re life experiences but they’re others that it has been difficult to do so because of experiences that have marked them in the past because of people not accepting their cultural identity. Being able to comprehend oneself and someone’s else’s culture can demonstrate the potential and knowledge that brings together the person that you are. Attitude is another factor involving cultural competency because at times it can be a sensitive factor to people's beliefs and values they have towards their culture. As being afraid of getting discriminated against or judged for the way they carry themselves. Lastly is behavior in cultural competency, in which you demonstrate the potential you have to be different and adapt to certain environments especially if it’s in the healthcare industry. The ability of being culturally congruent gives you the capability of not seeing someone else’s background but to acknowledge their hard accomplishments in a different