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Culturally Competence Client
Education
Dr. Nooredin Mohammadi
RN, BSN, MSN (Comm. Health Nurse), PhD
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Introduction
•Definition
oCulture is defined as “learned and transmitted values, beliefs, and
practices of a particular group of people that guide thinking, decisions,
and actions in patterned ways”.
(Leininger, 1995, p. 9)
oIndividual view and interpret the world people inhabit
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Iran
•Ethnicity in Iran
•Persian
51%
•Azeri
24%
•Gilaki and Mazandarani
8%
•Kurd
7%
•Arab
3%
•Lur
2%
•Baloch
2%
•Turkmen
2%
•Other
1%
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Culture
•Definition
oCulture is defined as “learned and transmitted values, beliefs, and
practices of a particular group of people that guide thinking, decisions,
and actions in patterned ways”.
(Leininger, 1995, p. 9)
oIndividual view and interpret the world people inhabit
Culturally Competence Client Education
January 2014
The Importance of Culture
oCulture is
oConscious and unconscious
oExpressed in social subgroups
oDynamic phenomenon
oUseful to differentiate between general and specific cultural knowledge
oGeneral cultural knowledge
oApplies to all cultural groups, helps to understand universal features
oSpecific cultural knowledge
oApplies to a specific sub-group or individuals within a group
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Considering Culture
•Culturally competence to client education can lead to
therapeutic relationship in the process of education
oInstrument of client education
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Stereotyping
•The assumptions about the characteristics of one or more
members of a group
oAll stereotypes are potentially dangerous because they fail to recognise
the individual’s perspective and impose expectations for behaviour that
may contradict the patient’s best interest
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Conclusion
•Cultural competence in client education involves
oHow to gain information from clients
oTo be an insider
oTo establish therapeutic relationship
oAvoid personal assumptions and stereotyping
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