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    The document outlines 12 standards for culturally competent nursing care. The standards address promoting social justice, critical self-reflection, gaining knowledge of diverse cultures, providing culturally congruent care, supporting culturally competent healthcare systems, patient advocacy and empowerment, maintaining a multicultural workforce, education and training, cross-cultural communication, cross-cultural leadership, policy development, and evidence-based practice and research. The standards provide guidance for nurses to deliver culturally sensitive care that meets the needs of diverse populations.

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    The document outlines 12 standards for culturally competent nursing care. The standards address promoting social justice, critical self-reflection, gaining knowledge of diverse cultures, providing culturally congruent care, supporting culturally competent healthcare systems, patient advocacy and empowerment, maintaining a multicultural workforce, education and training, cross-cultural communication, cross-cultural leadership, policy development, and evidence-based practice and research. The standards provide guidance for nurses to deliver culturally sensitive care that meets the needs of diverse populations.

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    The document outlines 12 standards for culturally competent nursing care. The standards address promoting social justice, critical self-reflection, gaining knowledge of diverse cultures, providing culturally congruent care, supporting culturally competent healthcare systems, patient advocacy and empowerment, maintaining a multicultural workforce, education and training, cross-cultural communication, cross-cultural leadership, policy development, and evidence-based practice and research. The standards provide guidance for nurses to deliver culturally sensitive care that meets the needs of diverse populations.

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    Standard of Practice of Culturally Competent Nursing Care

    Standard 1. Social Justice

     Professional nurses shall promote social justice for all. The applied principles of social justice
    guide decisions of nurses related to the patient, family, community, and other health care
    professionals. Nurses will develop leadership skills to advocate for socially just policies.
    Standard 2. Critical Reflection

     Nurses shall engage in critical reflection of their own values, beliefs, and cultural heritage in
    order to have an awareness of how these qualities and issues can impact culturally congruent
    nursing care.
    Standard 3. Knowledge of Cultures

     Nurses shall gain an understanding of the perspectives, traditions, values, practices, and family
    systems of culturally diverse individuals, families, communities and populations for whom they
    care, as well as a knowledge of the complex variables that affect the achievement of health and
    well – being.
    Standard 4. Culturally Competent Practice

     Nurses shall use cross cultural knowledge and culturally sensitive skills in implementing
    culturally congruent nursing care.
    Standard 5. Cultural Competence in HealthCare Systems and Organizations

     Healthcare organizations should provide the structure and resources necessary to evaluate and
    meet the cultural and language needs of their diverse clients.
    Standard 6. Patient Advocacy and Empowerment

     Nurses shall recognize the effect of healthcare policies, delivery systems and resources on their
    patient populations, and shall empower and advocate for their patients as indicated. Nurses shall
    advocate for the inclusion of their patient’s cultural beliefs and practices in all dimensions of their
    health care when possible.
    Standard 7. Multicultural Workforce

     Nurses shall actively engage in the effort to ensure a multicultural workforce in health care
    settings. One measure to achieve a multicultural workforce is through strengthening of
    recruitment and retention effort in the hospital and academic setting.
    Standard 8. Education and Training in Culturally Competent Care

     Nurses shall be educationally prepared to promote and provide culturally congruent health care.
    Knowledge and skills necessary for assuring that nursing care is culturally congruent shall be
    included in global health care agendas that mandate formal education and clinical training, as
    well as required ongoing, continuing education for all practicing nurses.
    Standard 9. Cross Cultural Communication
     Nurses shall use culturally competent verbal and nonverbal communication skills to identify
    client’s values, beliefs, practices, perceptions, and unique healthcare needs.
    Standard 10. Cross Cultural Leadership

     Nurses shall have the ability to influence individuals, groups and systems to achieve positive
    outcomes of culturally competent care for diverse populations.
    Standard 11. Policy Development

     Nurses shall have the knowledge and skills to work with public and private organizations,
    professional associations and communities to establish policies and standards for comprehensive
    implementation and evaluation of culturally competent care.
    Standard 12. Evidence-Based Practice and Research

     Nurses shall base their practice on interventions that have been systematically tested and shown
    to be the most effective for the culturally diverse populations that they serve. In areas where there
    is a lack of evidence of efficacy, nurse researchers shall investigate and test interventions that
    may be the most effective in reducing the disparities in health outcomes.

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