Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care: Working With Diverse And Vulnerable Populations, 2nd Edition (EPUB)

By Gloria Kersey-Matusiak PhD RN
Newly revised and updated, Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care, Second Edition, explores the cross-cultural interactions and conflicts between nurses and the diverse array of patients they may see. Culturally competent nurses can cut through preconceptions, reduce health disparities, and deliver high-quality care as they encounter patients from a range of backgrounds and beliefs. As frontline providers for diverse populations, nurses are expected to treat each patient with empathy and respect.
This text addresses what it really means to be culturally competent in nursing practice. As representatives of specific cultural, racial, ethnic, and sociopolitical groups, nurses bring their own values, beliefs, and attitudes to all interactions with patients and with one another. Whether or not nurses choose to make their attitudes explicit, these attitudes ultimately influence the quality of care they provide to patients. The content of this book is grounded in the Staircase Model, which builds upon the nurse’s own self-assessment to identify personal limitations, find strategies to improve cultural competence, and progress to the next level. This text features case scenarios that apply the process of cultural competence to different healthcare situations.
What’s New

Three New Chapters

Chapter 12: Caring for Patients Who Are Morbidly Obese
Chapter 13: Caring for Veterans
Chapter 14: Caring for Children

Expanded content on caring for LGBTQIA community
PowerPoint slides provided for instructors

Key Features

Addresses AACN competencies
Provides easy-to-follow self-assessment using the Staircase Model
Learning Objectives and Key Terms are identified in each chapter
Overview of each chapter provides current information about trends in the United States on the topic under discussion
Provides an excellent cultural competency preparation for student nurses in clinical situations as well as for practicing nurses at all levels and areas of nursing
Presents content on immigration and transgender individuals

Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer Publishing Company; 2nd edition (November 19, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Digital eBook ‏ : ‎ 348 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 082613727X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826137272