Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care

by Kersey-Matusiak, Gloria

• ISBN13: 9780826193810
• ISBN10: 0826193811
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-10-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Building Cultural Competency Skills
Defining Cultural Competency	p. 1
Patient-Focused Cultural Assessment Models	p. 21
Why Can't They Speak Our Language? Working With Culturally Diverse Colleagues	p. 35
Stepping up to Cultural Competency
Cultural Considerations When the Patient's Religious or Spiritual Needs Differ From One's Own	p. 53
Cultural Considerations When Caring for Patients With Physical, Psychological, or Intellectual Disabilities	p. 79
Cultural Considerations When the Patient Speaks a Different Language	p. 101
Cultural Considerations When Caring for the Patient Who Is Terminally Ill	p. 115
Cultural Considerations When Caring for the Geographically Displaced Client	p. 143
Cultural Considerations When Working With Patients With a Sexual Orientation That Differs From One's Own	p. 157
Cultural Considerations When Caring for the New Immigrant or Refugee	p. 197
Cultural Considerations When Caring for the Poor and Uninsured	p. 237
Appendix	p. 263
Glossary	p. 271
Answers to the NCLEX-Type Questions	p. 277
Index	p. 279
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