actice. Cultural knowledge is defined by Leininger and McFarland as the nurse's understanding of the cultural world view and theoretical/conceptual framework of the patient.
Cultural skills are said to refer to the nurse's developed skill-set used to access an individual's background and formulate a treatment plan that is culturally relevant. These skills, Leininger and McFarland (2002) state are used by a culturally competent nurse to care for culturally and ethnically diverse populations toward the objectives of making sure that services for these populations are available, accessible, affordable, acceptable, appropriate and adoptable.
In summary then, culturally competent care is a process in which a nurse strives to achieve and refine various abilities which allow her to work within the cultural context of patients, their families, and their communities. Cultural competence involves not merely the general knowledge and skills associated with effective maximal caring for patients but also a certain sensitivi
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