NUR 2488 - Cultural Considerations in Mental Health Nursing. Essay.
NUR 2488 - Cultural Considerations in Mental Health Nursing. Essay. Cultural competence is an ongoing, constantly evolving process that requires a commitment to continuous self-assessment and to personal and professional behaviors and experiences that support cultural competence. Nurses who care for people with physical illnesses ideally maintain a holistic view that involves an awareness of psychological, social, cultural, environmental, functional, and spiritual issues as well as ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age (Varcarolis, 2016). As students, we’re taught culturally competent care concepts and processes in our lectures, and now we must practice implementing these concepts at our clinical sites. Nurses must respond to changing patient demographics to provide culturally sensitive care.
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