BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES More effective diabetes care is desperately needed, especially for ethnic minority populations. Provider cultural competence promises to be an important means for reducing disparities in outcomes for patients with diabetes. The objectives of this study were to understand the role of cultural competence in the diabetes office visit. METHODS Unannounced standardized pa...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Increased cultural competence is a tool in the fight to eliminate health disparities in people with diabetes. However, questions remain regarding the best cultural competence teaching, evaluation, and dissemination methods. An Internet-based approach requires less facilitator time and provides greater ease of dissemination. We developed and tested a skills-focused, Int...

BACKGROUND There is limited literature available identifying and describing the instruments that measure cultural competence in nursing students and nursing professionals. DESIGN An integrative review was undertaken to identify the characteristics common to these instruments, examine their psychometric properties, and identify the concepts these instruments are designed to measure. METHOD T...

Introduction: Teaching and becoming culturally competent are concepts that have continue to evolve partly due the language being used such as competent, sensitive, cultural humility. With an influx of ethnically diverse populations, nurses need become in care patients from many backgrounds. Faculty must first be provide this pedagogy for nursing students. This paper explores analyzes competence...

Cultural competence has gained attention as a potential strategy to improve quality and eliminate racial/ethnic disparities in health care. In 2002 we conducted interviews with experts in cultural competence from managed care, government, and academe to identify their perspectives on the field. We present our findings here and then identify recent trends in cultural competence focusing on healt...

This essay expounds on individuals’ acquisition and development of cultural competence via the process of communication. It highlights both the importance of culture and communication in our lives and the close associations between culture, communication, cultural literacy, and cultural competence. The author explicates the commonly experienced difficulty in “knowing the true face” of one’s cul...

The author presents reflections from medical anthropology on the institutional culture of medicine and medical education, which sees itself as a "culture of no culture" and which systematically tends to foster static and essentialist conceptions of "culture" as applied to patients. Even though requirements designed to address cultural competence are increasingly incorporated into medical school...