Cultural Competency

Catalog description

Explores cultural effect on health and illness. Analyzes the attitudes, knowledge, and values of diverse populations. Emphasis is on heightened cultural awareness for professional nurses providing care in a diverse environment. Identifies best practice guidelines for culturally responsive care, to transform knowledge, to identify at-risk cultural groups and influence health promotion and disparity reduction within these groups. This is an online course with minimum class time of 37.5 hours.