Question

1.How can community health nurses apply the strategies of cultural competence to their practice?

2. Provide at least one example from each of the following four strategies: cultural preservation, cultural accommodation, cultural re-patterning, and cultural brokering.

3. What is a possible barrier to applying the strategy/example chosen

Answer 1

Answer 1: Due increased diversity in the population, it has become important for the healthcare professionals to provide cultural competence environment. The community health nurse need to respect the cultural differences and hemce this will enable them to provide cultural competence environment to the community. The community health nurse can apply the strategies such as:

• Respecting the other cultural views.
• To keep ourselves aware about the diverse cultures.
• The community health nurse need to take cultural competence training to provide better care.
• The traditional values and beliefs should be considered.
• The community health nurse need to provide spiritual care to the patient.