Question

Explain why Healthcare Administrators have the responsibility to be culturally competent? Do you think this is an important function in today's healthcare environment? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Answer: The healthcare administrators have responsibility to be culturally competent because by providing cultural competence environment, the patient can feel safe, comfortable. This also enables the healthcare professionals to communicate their problem more freely. Additionally it remove sthe barrier of communication. This enables the healthcare administrator to collect the Information, health care history, traditional values regarding the patient and their beliefs. By providing cultural competence environment, it becomes easy to enhance the quality of the treatment by indulging evidence based practice, providing spiritual support etc.

Cultural competence environment plays major role and due to extreme diversity in the population, it has become necessary. So, it is a demand of this era to provide cultural competence environment.