Importance Of Cultural Competence In Health Care

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Cultural competency is one of the major elements in eliminating health disparities. Fejos defines (as cited in spector,2004)defines culture as “the sum total of socially inherited characteristic of a human group that comprise everything which one generation can tell,convey,or hand down to the next, in other words ,the non-physically inherited traits we possess’.Cultural competence and respect for others becomes especially important for us in the nursing practice because we are patient advocates. In U.S. the ethinic and racial population has increased significantaly. It has challenges to the system of health care delivery service. Health care practitioners need to stay abreast of patients cultures(Boyle,200).Nurses should provide respectful