Culturally Competent Nursing Care

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Deborah L. Flowers, RN, PhD in her article “Culturally Competent Nursing Care: A Challenge for the 21 st Century” describes the necessity of health care providers, mainly the nurses working in emergency care, to consider cultural diversity in our growing multicultural world, as a priority in delivering culturally qualified health care services; however, they do not always comprehend the meaning of cultural values, practices and believes. The author exemplifies us the impact of the health care personnel’s minor cross cultural knowledge in three different situations, like not respecting a Native American patient’s wish to die surrounded by his family, not allowing to a Chinese patient to eat her wife’s home cooked food, and totally misunderstanding