Assignment: Cultural Competence For Healthcare Provider

Assignment: Cultural Competence For Healthcare Provider

Assignment: Cultural Competence For Healthcare Provider

After watching the video, please answer the following:

• Does the American Nurse’s Association or other nursing organization have any statement about the nurse’s role in cultural competence?
• Does the electronic health record in your facility prompt you to ask culturally relevant assessment questions? Please provide an example of one of the questions.
• Describe one way you plan of being culturally aware in your health promotion /disease prevention education?

Guidelines for Discussion

1. Your response should consist of complete sentences and should be at least one complete paragraph. Support your answers with descriptions and examples to clarify your meaning. Substantiate your answers with a reference using APA format for citations.As Canadians entered the decade of the 1960s, there was serious concern about the healthcare system. In 1961, all Canadian provinces signed on to the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act. This legislation created a national, universal health insurance system. The same year, the Royal Commission on Health Services was established and presented four recommendations. One of the recommendations was to examine nursing education. Prior to this, the CNA had requested a survey of nursing schools across Canada with the goal of assessing how prepared the schools were for a national system of accreditation. The findings of this survey, paired with the commission’s recommendation, led to the establishment of the Canadian Nurses Foundation (CNF) in 1962. The CNF (2014) provides funding for nurses to further their education and for research related to nursing care. The Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (n.d.) is the organization that promotes national nursing education standards and is the national accrediting agency for university nursing programs in Canada.Nursing in Canada transformed itself to meet the needs of a changing Canadian society and in doing so was responsible for a shift from nursing as a spiritual vocation to a secular but indispensable profession. Nurses’ willingness to respond in times of need, whether economic crisis, epidemic, or war, contributed to their importance in the healthcare system (Mansell, 2004). Canadian nursing associations agreed that starting in the year 2000, the basic educational preparation for the registered nurse would be the baccalaureate degree, and all provinces and territories launched a campaign known as EP 2000, which later became EP 2005. Currently, the baccalaureate degree earned from a university is the accepted entry level into nursing practice in Canada (Mansell, 2004).