The Health Care Professional's Guide to Cultural Competence (häftad, eng)

Build the skills you need to understand and care for a wide diversity of patients! The Health Care Professional’s Guide to Cultural Competence, 2nd Edition provides a guide to safe and effective cross-cultural care. Applying theory to practice, the book begins with an overview of clinical cultural competence.

This guide shows how to apply cultural competence across diverse populations, and then discusses considerations in working with specific populations. Using this approach, you will develop a set of behaviours, attitudes, and policies that help you work effectively in many settings.

From an expert team of authors led by Rani H. Srivastava, this guide will enhance your care of Indigenous, LGBTQ2, racialized persons, and immigrant and refugee populations. UNIQUE approach looks at populations the way health care workers encounter them, not by ethno-cultural/religious labelsAccessible writing style relays information in a balanced and concise manner for undergraduate and graduate students as well as health care professionalsMultidisciplinary perspective is provided by authors who represent a variety of health disciplines and cultural identities, who may be educators or practitioners, each presenting complex ideas in understandable ways and controversial ideas in a transparent wayCultural Considerations in Care and Cultural Competence in Action boxes integrate theory into practice and invite critical self-reflectionTeaching and learning tools include learning objectives and key terms at the beginning of each chapter, plus end-of-chapter group activities, review questions, and moreNEW! New chapters on Indigenous health, sexual and gender diversity, immigrant and refugee health, and community health are added to this edition, and new topics include cultural safety, cultural humility, the impacts of racism, working with interpreters and the use of technology, palliative care, and moreNEW! UNIQUE! Cultural competence and safety perspectives throughout the text help you to be more responsive in delivering culturally safe care, and in reaching the goal of equity and culturally competent careNEW! Discussion of cultural issues addresses power, privilege, intersectionality, equity, advocacy, and being an allyNEW! Up-to-date content includes the latest statistics, guidelines, research, references, and resourcesNEW! Evolve website enhances your understanding with review questions, unfolding case studies, and more

Format	Häftad
Omfång	448 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Utgivningsdatum	2022-08-17
ISBN	9780323790000