Self‐Reported Cultural Competence of Nurses Providing Nursing Care in Slovakia

Abstract

The cultural competence of healthcare providers is a professional imperative and has been linked to increased health disparities (Prosen, 2015). In health care, cultural competence has been defined in multiple ways. Described by Schim and Doorenbos (2010) as an integration of personal cultural diversities, awareness, and sensitivity into everyday clinical practice, the American Nurses Association (2015) characterizes cultural competence as a process through which nurses deliver culturally congruent care for patients of a different or similar culture. According to Jeffreys (2010), cultural competence is defined as a multidimensional education process, which integrates the main factor, transcultural self-effectivity (self-confidence) with transcultural skills (cognitive, practical, and affective), and focuses on achieving culturally congruent care. In her model, Papadopoulos (2018) defined cultural competence as an ability to provide effective health care, with the

Methods of increasing cultural competence in nurses working in clinical practice: A scoping review of literature 2011–2021

“…The findings of this scoping review suggest that appropriate educational training can increase the cultural competence of nurses. These findings are supported by Cicolini et al (2015) , Yilmaz et al (2017) , Červený et al (2020) , and Antón-Solanas et al (2021) . Marja and Suvi (2021) report that simulations allow the integration of cultural elements into different vocational training and deepen the overall understanding of patient-centered cultural practices among simulation participants.…”

“…This general tool evaluates any qualitative methodology. It has 10 questions asking the researcher to assess whether appropriate research methods were used and whether the findings were presented meaningfully ( Červený et al, 2020 ; Long et al, 2020 ). The results of the quality assessment are presented in Table 2 .…”

“…According to Horvat et al (2014), the development of cultural competencies is a crucial component for addressing health disparities and strategies to improve culturally competent care, and many experts agree (Harkess and Kaddoura, 2016;Mariño et al, 2018;Curtis et al, 2019;Červený et al, 2020;Swihart et al, 2021). Faber (2021) adds that the education of health professionals is also a method of addressing racial and ethnic discrimination resulting from structural inequality.…”

Cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study

“…In their study, Lin et al (2021) found that cultural competence education acquired in nursing school has no influence on the cultural competence of registered nurses, but does seem to have an influence on pre-graduate nursing students [ 11 ]. Another study shows that nurses who are older and have received prior diversity training exhibit significantly higher levels of cultural competence [ 12 ]. These findings indicate that the assessment of Austrian nurses’ cultural competence and the identification of factors that influence this competence can help researchers and healthcare professionals to develop coherent interventions and to improve culturally competent care.…”

Nursing students’ experience of learning cultural competence

“…According to the International Council of Nurses (ICN) [ 25 ], patients have the right to culturally and clinically appropriate care in order to ensure best patient outcomes. However, preparing nurses to provide safe and culturally competent nursing care requires significant education and training [ 26 , 27 ]. Thus, the means of providing safe and culturally competent quality care should be central components of nursing education [ 7 , 28 ].…”