NUR274 Topics in Nursing: Culture

National leader and critical voice for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA&NHPI) community health centers (CHCs) and consumers, ensuring that our communities have better access to affordable, high quality, and culturally and linguistically proficient health care.

Free e-learning program from the HHS Office of Minority Health. It is accredited for up to 9 continuing education credits, at no cost, for nurses and social workers. Designed to help you deliver culturally and linguistically competent care. Cultural and linguistic competency is the capacity for individuals and organizations to work and communicate effectively in cross-cultural situations. Cultural and linguistic competency can help improve the quality of the care you deliver to patients from diverse cultural backgrounds.

From the Clear Communication site.

Resources to assist health care providers to recognize and address the unique culture, language and health literacy of diverse consumers and communities.

Each month, a different patient population and diseases/conditions that disproportionately affect that group/community is highlighted and addressed. Included in this issue are articles of interest on select clinical topics or populations, and guidelines with selected recommendations excerpted from the original guideline.

Harborview Medical Center's ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups.

Health information in languages other than English.

This information portal leads to health resources from across NIH for selected priority health areas. The languages for each condition are chosen to reach populations with particular health disparities. Note that racial and ethnic indicators are based on the research data cited. Additional resources will continue to be added as they become available.

Mission is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.

Free, online educational program accredited for physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners.

This toolkit is a practical, hands-on resource to help practicing pediatricians and their office staff provide culturally effective care to their patients and families.

Self-directed training course designed for physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners that will equip them with competencies needed to better treat the increasingly diverse U.S. population.

Created by a hospital social worker and English as a Second Language (ESOL) educator, this resource offers explanations, tips, materials, and links to help ESOL teachers and programs better understand and address the health literacy challenges faced by adult English language learners in U.S. healthcare.