What measures did you take to ensure that the care you provided was culturally competent care?

What measures did you take to ensure that the care you provided was culturally competent care?

Hello,

Please use this videos for this assignment and a few other sources. Please respond to all the questions. it should be approximately 1 and a half page.

thanks

 

View these videos from the US Department of Health and Human Services, and then answer the question below:

http://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/FlashPlayer/play508.asp?Video=QHpart1

http://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/FlashPlayer/play508.asp?Video=QHpart2

1. How do you define culture?

2. Discuss some of your experiences in caring for a patient from a different culture than your own. What measures did you take to ensure that the care you provided was culturally competent care?

3. When caring for a patient that does not speak the same language as should you ensure that the patient understood the information that you provide them?

Use the videos and other sources to support your post.