Culturally competent care means providing care within the context of a patient’s culture and beliefs. To provide this care as a community health nurse, you need to continually acquire knowledge, refine skills, and assess yourself. Becoming culturally competent is an ongoing process. Nurses can develop cultural competence in different ways, but the key elements are experiences with patients from other cultures, an open-minded awareness of these experiences, and a respect for cultural differences. As part of the development process, community health nurses should assess their cultural competence (Huber, LM., 2009)
• Cultural Preservation- scientifically sound cultural practices o There are many different cultures in this world that practice
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Example, Homeopathic is a natural form of medicine used by over 200 million people worldwide to treat both acute and chronic conditions. It is based on the principle of 'like cures like'. In other words, a substance taken in small amounts will cure the same symptoms it causes if it were taken in large amounts.
• Cultural Repatterning - works with a patient to help him or her change cultural practices that are harmful. o Example, a patient comes from a culture that values the use of herbs, a nurse needs to negotiate abstinence from particular herbs that can cause adverse effects.
• Cultural Brokering- act of bridging, linking or mediating between groups or persons of different cultural backgrounds for the purpose of reducing conflict or producing change o In the nursing field, we are met with different cultures every day. We need to be aware of the understanding of our care is understood by the patients in the assessment, medication regimen, and the follow-up care. Example, to have a translator on the phone or in present to make sure the patient understands everything that the nurse has