The Healthcare Professional'S Guide To Cultural Competence And Diversity

Course overview

Cultural competency is one of the main ingredients in closing the disparities gap in health care. It is the way patients and doctors can come together and talk about health concerns without cultural differences hindering the conversation, but enhancing it. Quite simply, healthcare services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients can help bring about positive health outcomes. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to recall how to recruit, promote, and support a diverse governance, leadership, and workforce. You will not only be able to inform individuals of the availability of language assistance, but you will be able to ensure the competence of individuals providing language assistance. This course will help you identify ways to conduct assessments of community health assets and needs and review how to conduct assessments of community health assets and needs.