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This is a FREE COURSE, courtesy of CULTURE ADVANTAGE. Advocating Cultural Competency in Practice.
Cultural Competency: The Building Blocks (2 Contact Hours) Learn how to work more effectively in diverse settings. This course provides the background for our series on cultural competency.
To take the exam, log in, locate the course, click on "TO TAKE THE COURSE" and click "FINISH" which will take you to the exam area.
After completion of the module, the participant will be able to:
1. Define culture, cultural competence, and linguistic competence in healthcare.
2. Explain at least 4 CLAS standards that affect nursing practice (Standards 1,2,3,4).
3. Discuss the history of cultural competency in nursing.
4. Describe culturally competent attitudes, knowledge and skills.
The other courses in the Cultural Competency series are located here:
In keeping with our mission of spreading the word about cultural competency, this course is free to anyone interested in this subject.
Course available through 30 Nov 2008
Number of lessons: 2
Course time (min): none
Test:
on
Cost: free
This course is the second module of the cultural competency series. The first course "Cultural Competency: The Building Blocks" serves as the background for this module.
This course may be FREE to qualifying organizations. Please contact us.
Cultural awareness is a developmental process. This interactive course is designed to facilitate the participant's development of cultural awareness and sensitivity in order to provide culturally competent care.
Cultural Competency: The Building Blocks is a pre-requisite for this course.
This course may be FREE to qualifying organizations. Please contact us.
Receive contact hours for ANY Spanish course that you take online. We provide review of the material covered in the exam to evaluate your proficiency at the basic or beginner Spanish level. More exams are being developed for the intermediate and advanced levels. Take and pass the exam with a 70% score to receive contact hours.
We are evaluating this program, so as always, your comments are very important to us.
BONUS VIDEO: NUMBERS (from ESAUDIO.NET)
With more than 32 million Hispanics in the United States, half of whom speak only Spanish, it is becoming imperative that healthcare professionals learn Spanish to help meet the health care need of these patients. One of every eight American is of Hispanic descent and the number is projected to steadily increase to 98 million.
Learn Spanish to:
To establish rapport
To gather information
To give directions
To provide empathy
Our courses DO NOT train the participants to become medical interpreters. Medical interpreting requires specialized knowledge and skills. Medical procedures, treatments, and vital documents in the health care setting must be interpreted and translated by qualified professionals.
Our courses DO NOT train the participants to become medical interpreters. Medical interpreting requires specialized knowledge and skills. Medical procedures, treatments, and vital documents in the health care setting must be interpreted and translated by qualified professionals.
Course available through 25 Jan 2009
Number of lessons: 1
Course time (min): none
Test:
on
Cost: free
