Culturally competent care is healthcare that considers a person’s cultural and faith-based beliefs. It can help ensure that the care being given is compassionate and effective. Culture refers to the ...

What does cultural competence mean? Working in healthcare, you’ve probably heard this term thrown around a lot. In the last few years in particular, cultural competence in nursing has been a hot topic ...

Hugh Lytle is founder and CEO, Equality Health, a Value Based Care leader helping independent primary care practices make the shift to VBC. While there is no single way to define “cultural competence, ...

Culture refers to the ideas, customs, and behaviors of a group of people or a society (1). It influences just about everything you do — the way you speak, the foods you eat, what you consider to be ...

As some of you may have seen, the Education Week video team had a piece on PBS NewsHour last week on the increasingly pressing topic of better preparing teachers to work in diverse classrooms. The ...

Cultural competency is one of the most important values in the practice of medicine. Defined as the “ability to collaborate effectively with individuals from different cultures,” this type of ...

“The world felt larger when the internet was small,” writes Hal Conick, “Twenty years ago, 33 percent of internet users were in the U.S. while less than 1.5 percent of the world’s population was ...

The hot new term in higher education is “cultural competence,” says Norman Levitt, a mathematics professor at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. But, he warns, the phrase is little more than a ...

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The development of cultural competence in pharmacy education has become an essential component in preparing future pharmacists for effective patient care in increasingly diverse societies. Educational ...

The Joint Commission plans to change its accreditation standards to address the need for cultural competence in hospital care. It is taking online applications through September 8 for an expert panel ...