Cultural Competency in a Healthcare Setting

Posted: January 18th, 2014

Statement of the problem
Due to the influx of immigrants, foreign nationalities, and diverse cultural social demographic requires healthcare organization and professionals to have the skills to deliver cultural competency.
Statement of purpose:
Our research is based around one question: What assessment tools can health care managers create and provide for staff to deliver cultural competency to a growing diversity in patient populations?
The literature Review should be based on the following information
To establish the background of our purpose (What assessment tools can health care managers create and provide for staff to deliver cultural competency to a growing diversity in patient populations?) a variety of literature pertaining to cultural competency will be viewed. (refers to those in the paper)Also the Literature review will review and focus on the following four major areas of cultural competency care: (1) The importance of cultural competency care (2) Organizational and management process for addressing diversity (3) Healthcare providers initiative to provide effective cultural competency (4)Patient views and perception of cultural competency.