Guidelines for Implementing Culturally Competent Nursing Care

Cultural Competent Patient-Centered Nursing Care

“…The Standards for Transcultural Nursing were developed to foster excellence in transcultural nursing practice, provide criteria for the evaluation of transcultural nursing, create a tool for teaching and learning, increase the public's confidence in the nursing profession, and advance transcultural nursing. 13,14 It is important to collaborate with the patient, family members, other health care professionals, healers, and community resources during all phases of this assessment process. 5 The treatment plan is successful when both the nurse and the patient mutually agree to health care needs, knowledge, and experiences.…”

Mitigation of transcultural clinical barriers in a health and wellness program: A transcultural caring approach for vulnerable migrant backstretch workers

“…The variance among cultural norms and the distinctive milieus in which nurse's practice require carefully prescribed guidelines that are thoughtfully crafted for each clinical setting. [24] …”

“…Empowering clients by including realistic strategies that promote and improve health through the integration of cultural beliefs and folk practices into nursing care plans and wellness programs, contributes to overall client health and has relevance in the area of expanded access to health care services for these marginalized individuals. [24] Faculty, nursing students, and staff take into account the cultural differences of migrant clients and center efforts on understanding and respecting different points of view that are present within the backstretch population, placing increased consideration on these differences. One example includes caring for clients who feel they are not in control of their diabetes.…”

Guidelines for Culturally Effective Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Worldwide

“…The 2014 version of these guidelines is available for use in psychiatric-mental health education and treatment (Douglas et al, 2014), and I invite all readers of the Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services to examine them, consider how they might be used in your practice, and share them with your colleagues, via listserv, posting on a staff bulletin board, downloading and mailing them, referring to them in a paper, bringing them to a meeting, or batch e-mailing across the globe. It is a brave new world, and here is one inexpensive way we can improve our care to all; decrease the inequities, disparities, and misunderstandings across cultures; truly respect our patients; and further strengthen the humanity of our own profession.…”