Summary Global Applications of Culturally Competent Health Care: Guidelines for Practice 2024

Global Applications of Culturally Competent Health Care: Guidelines for Practice 2024 There are three areas that heighten the need for culturally competent care: globalization and its resultant increase in population and workforce diversity, global conflicts with consequent displacement of populations, and evidence of health inequities within the same country and across different countries globally. Today, global conflicts have forcibly displaced 65.6 million persons, creating an unprecedented 22.5 million refugees in the world (UNHCR 2018). An influx of this magnitude presents a challenge to nurses worldwide to provide care to persons who may have health beliefs and practices different from their own. In addition, these new groups of refugees and displaced persons augment the local and national racial and ethnic minority populations who are increasingly vulnerable to unequal access to health care and resultant poor health outcomes. This book was compiled as an effort to reduce the effects of social inequities on the health of these populations and to provide healthcare professionals with a resource for providing culturally competent care. Health disparities are the differential consequences on the physical and mental well-being of population groups attributable to social inequalities. These inequities create cumulative disadvantages in human life conditions exposing certain groups to a greater number and intensity of health risks. Health is tied with the social conditions of life. Thus, health promotion should be grounded on the principles of social justice and protection of basic human rights supportive of health. While individual-based care and biomedical approaches to diseases are important, population health achievement is difficult without improving the conditions in which people are born, live, and work. This book attempts to demonstrate culturally competent care as a strategy to achieve health equity. The Guidelines for Culturally Competent Health Care were developed by a task force convened by members of the Expert Panel on Global Nursing and Health of the American Academy of Nursing and also included members of the Transcultural Nursing Society. In preparing the guidelines, the task force members reviewed documents related to culturally competent health care from more than 50 publications and sources from around the world, including healthcare, governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Several versions of the guidelines were sent to global colleagues for peer review to assess global applicability. Eventually, the final version of the Guidelines was endorsed by the International Council of Nurses and distributed to its member v vi Preface national nursing organizations throughout the world. Nurses in these countries are now left to decide how to implement them. The purpose of this book is to expand on previous work describing the Guidelines (Douglas et al. 2014) and to provide practical, clinical examples of how each of these guidelines can be integrated into practice by practitioners caring for diverse populations from around the world. This book will be useful for multidisciplinary healthcare students, clinicians, advanced practice nurses, administrators, educators, and those who provide community health or population-based care. The first chapter provides the conceptual basis for culturally competent health care and presents a list of ten guidelines along with a few examples of implementation. Then a separate section is devoted to each guideline. Within each section is a chapter with an in-depth discussion of the guideline and its rationale, followed by three or more chapters with clinical case studies of examples of how the guideline was implemented in a particular cultural setting. All case studies follow a similar format and are written by international authors with clinical expertise and work experience in the culture being presented. It is recognized that these guidelines must be adapted to each situation. Within each setting, there are cultural norms embedded in their respective social, economic, and political system in which they exist. Therefore, in conclusion, the guidelines and their accompanying case studies are intended to be examples of how culturally competent care can be delivered. They are not meant to be requirements for professional practice but rather to assist the practitioner, educator, administrator, or researcher in planning care for a culturally diverse population. Palo Alto, CA, USA Marilyn “Marty” Douglas Newark, NJ, USA Dula Pacquiao Sudlersville, MD, USA Larry Purnell References Douglas M, Rosenketter M, Pacquiao D, Clark Callister L, Hattar-Pollara M, Lauderdale J, Milsted J, Nardi D, Purnell L (2014) Guidelines for implementing culturally competent nursing care. J Transcult Nurs 25(2):109–221. https://doi. org/10.117/. Accessed 29 Oct 2017 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Figure at a glance. Statistical yearbooks. Acknowledgements The Co-Editors wish to acknowledge and thank all of our professional colleagues around the world who have made this work possible. In particular, these include the members of the American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel on Global Nursing and Health’s Task Force on Global Standards of Culturally Competent Care. This task force was comprised of the three co- editors of this book plus Lynn Clark Callister, PhD, RN, FAAN, Marianne Hattar-Pollara, PhD, RN, FAAN, Jana Lauderdale, PhD, RN, FAAN, Jeri Milstead, PhD, RN, FAAN, Deena Nardi, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, Marlene Rosenkoetter, PhD, RN, CNS, FAAN, and Joan Uhl Pierce, PhD, RN, FAAN. This task force formulated the original Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Care and published them as Guidelines for Practice, which form the basis of the structure and content for this book. Special acknowledgement must be given to Joan Uhl Pierce, PhD, RN,