Culture

To empower our professionals with the knowledge and skills to respond to the needs of patients and their families at an intensely stressful time

Patient's beliefs, behaviors, and values are shaped by factors such as ethnicity, gender, language, mental ability, nationality, occupation, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status

Cultural competence is the provider and systems able to understand and integrate cultural intelligence into the delivery of healthcare. The goal of providing culturally competent health care services is to provide consistent quality of care to every patient, regardless of their cultural, ethnic, racial, or religious background.

Strategies for improving cultural competence in individuals and systems include:

• Encouraging family to participate in healthcare decision making.
• Incorporating culture-specific values into health promotion
• Providing cultural awareness training
• Providing an environment that allows traditional healers
• Providing interpreter services
• Recruiting minority staff