Cultural competence: A priority for performance improvement action

Journal of Nursing Care Quality

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 23-35

  Salimbene, Suzanne ^a  

^a Inter Face International   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural competence; Multicultural patients; Nursing education; Transcultural nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NURSING PROCESS; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; NURSING PROCESS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033074355     PISSN: 10573631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001786-199902000-00004     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. The term Hispanic, invented by the United States Census Bureau for its 1970 Census, is not a racial designation. The Hispanic classification includes people of Central American, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South American, and Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.
2. Gannet News Service. Rockford Register Star January 5 (1997): Section A, p. 4.
3. California Department of Health Services. Cultural and Linguistic Requirements Subgroup: Recommended Standards for the Medi-Cal Managed Care Program. California Department of Health Services, 1993.
4. Salimbene, S. "Using Interpreters: Parts 1 and 2." Culturally Competent Care 2, nos. 3 and 4 (1996): 1.
5. Salimbene, S. "Health Care Resources" in The 1999 Health Practitioner's Multicultural Resource Calendar, Amherst Educational Publishing, Amherst, MA, 1998.
6. Salimbene, S., and Simons, G. HealthCare DIVERSOPHY, George Simons International, Santa Cruz, CA, 1998.