Culturally Incompetent Care: Endangers Life

Culturally-sensitive End-of-Life Care Scoping Review

Strategies for culturally effective end-of-life care.

As a result of profound worldwide demographic change, physicians will increasingly care for patients from cultural backgrounds other than their own. Differences in beliefs, values, and traditional health care practices are of particular relevance at the end of life. Health care providers and patients and families may not have shared understandings of the meaning of illness or death and may not ...

Culturally Competent Nursing Care

Deborah L. Flowers is an associate professor with East Central Oklahoma Department of Nursing, Ada, Okla. She is program coordinator for the distance education nursing program, ECU @ Southeastern Department of Nursing, Durant, Okla. Changing Demographics Demographic changes in many countries reflect an increasingly diverse population. For example, in Sweden, a society that once reflected only a...

Providing culturally sensitive end-of-life care for the Latino/a community.

The Latino population is the fastest-growing population in the United States. This rapid growth has resulted in an increased need for culturally sensitive health and education services, especially at end of life. Terminal illness experiences, beliefs, and expectations are linked to cultural values. Latino culture values end of life and is rich in beliefs, traditions, and rituals related to this...

Culturally specific maternity care in Wisconsin.

There are significant health disparities in maternity care in the United States. One way to decrease these disparities may be to improve prenatal care among underserved minority women. This article reviews cultural and ethnic issues that may impact maternity care within 5 different groups of women commonly seen by maternity care providers in Wisconsin: African American, Latina, Hmong, Amish, an...