Cultural Competence in Healthcare
(4.0 Contact Hours)
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Co-Provided with ALLEGRA Learning Solutions, LLC.
To successfully complete this course and receive your certificate, you must read the content online or in the downloaded PDF, pass the post test with a 70% or better, and complete the evaluation form.
The price of this course is $32.00. You will only be asked to pay for the course if you decide to grade the post examination to earn a certificate with contact hours.
This activity is provided through an educational partnership between Corexcel and ALLEGRA Learning Solutions, LLC without support from any commercial interest.
It is Corexcel's policy to ensure fair balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all programming. In compliance with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) we require that faculty disclose all financial relationships with commercial interests over the past 12 months.
No planning committee member has indicated a relevant financial relationship with a commercial interest involved with the content contained in this course.
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Learning Objectives
After completion of Cultural Competence in Healthcare the participant will be able to:
- Describe specific characteristics about the composition, cultural aspects, and unique health care issues concerning African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and American Indians/Alaskan Natives.
- Explain the meaning of language and culture.
- Explain the relationship between culture and healthcare.
- Identify three major health belief systems.
- Identify four major healthcare systems.
- Define cultural competence and explain why it is important in the delivery of healthcare.
- List ways that cultural competence can be achieved by healthcare providers.
- Describe the relationships between cultural competence and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities.
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Content Outline I. Introduction II. Diversity in America III. Major Cultural Groups in the United States IV. Language and Culture V. Culture and Healthcare VI. Differing Health Belief Systems VII. Differing Healthcare Systems VIII. Cultural Competence IX. Cultural Diversity and the Use of Complementary X. Summary XI. References |
An overview of specific cultural characteristics of major cultural groups in the US will help you better care for a culturally diverse healthcare population.
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