Cultural Competency Nursing CEU Courses

The Health and Medicine Division’s (HMD) Healthy People 2030 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have highlighted the health disparities affecting LGBTQ+ populations. As evidence of health-illness patterns continues to be reported in the literature, this module presents the complex social determinants of health unique among the LGBTQ+ community. Information will be analyzed based on the six conceptual perspectives for understanding LGBTQ+ health suggested by the HMD: stigma, social constructionism, identity affirmation, life course, intersectionality, and social ecology.

Effectively communicating with patients and families is the foundation for a therapeutic, safe, and positive patient experience. The patient‘s experience of care is greatly influenced by what is communicated and what the patient and family observe. Communication is also a vital component of obtaining an accurate history and physical assessment, providing informed, comprehensive care, and educating patients and families to achieve optimal outcomes. When healthcare professionals recognize the factors that influence communication and consistently apply effective communication techniques, patient satisfaction, safety, and outcomes improve.

Working cross-culturally requires you to appreciate the impact cultural differences have on interpersonal communication. Transcultural healthcare workers are sensitive to these differences and strive to determine the most appropriate and effective ways to interact with diverse colleagues. When you communicate and collaborate productively with your colleagues, you are much more likely to deliver culturally relevant care to your patients and improve the overall patient experience.

The U.S. Census estimates that Mexican-Americans represent 17.8% of the U.S. population, with over 33.6 million Americans listed as being of Mexican descent. Mexican-Americans comprise 64.3% of all Latinos in the U.S. Mexican-Americans demonstrate wide diversity in health beliefs and practices. Understanding these beliefs and practices can guide a nurse to establish trust, increase patient satisfaction, and provide flexible care that meets patient and family needs (Drevdahl, 2018). Applying knowledge and expressing appreciation of diverse healthcare beliefs can help to create a therapeutic partnership that increases understanding of the patient worldview and formulate effective interventions.

Multidisciplinary. Transdisciplinary. Interprofessional. What are the differences? Why is an interprofessional approach important for the classroom, for the clinical environment, for healthcare consumers/patients? While teamwork has long been advocated as a goal of healthcare delivery, advances in healthcare delivery propelled healthcare professionals to recognize the patient as a pivotal member of the healthcare team and not solely the reason for the healthcare team. With the research showing how interprofessional collaboration improves quality of care, become empowered through this webinar to recognize, explain, or implement interprofessional collaboration. Become enlightened as to where interprofessional care may be headed in the future to merge cost-effective, lean, and evidence-supported care! Enjoy this webinar with virtual enhancements to provide you with an enriched learning experience complete with scenarios on what interprofessional collaboration is and is not.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have lasting negative effects on adult health, in the form of risk-taking behaviors, and chronic disease. More than half of the U.S. population has experienced at least one adverse childhood event and 14.3% have experienced four or more. Prolonged exposure to toxic stress can triple the risk for ischemic heart disease and even shorten life expectancy by 20 years, but most healthcare professionals do not know how to screen for these risk factors. Healthcare professionals have a unique opportunity to address these risk factors with screening, acknowledgement, and referrals for treatment. This continuing education program reviews the research and science of how childhood trauma affects adult health and wellness, explains how to screen for risk factors, and describes how to promote healing and resilience with trauma-informed care. 

Healthcare professionals weigh decisions on how to care for patients with pain. With the backdrop of the opioid epidemic and current opioid misuse situations, it may seem that the struggle to determine “the right thing to do” is even more complex. Join a pain management expert for an interesting discussion of how ethics and personal experiences collide in the complex pain management conversation.

Healthcare professionals weigh decisions on how to care for patients with pain. With the backdrop of the opioid epidemic and current opioid misuse situations, it may seem that the struggle to determine “the right thing to do” is even more complex. Join a pain management expert for an interesting discussion of how values-based decision-making and healthcare collaboration influence pain management.

How many times have you considered whether a patient truly understood discharge instructions, medication instructions, or overall healthcare information? The US Department of Health and Human Services discusses how those with good general literacy skills can still struggle with health literacy specifically. Join the conversation about the seriousness of health literacy and how things may feel for those who struggle with health literacy.

The US Department of Health and Human Services discusses how those with literacy proficiency can still struggle with health literacy. When a patient or client struggles with both basic literacy and health literacy, much support is needed to help facilitate understanding of health information. Combine the concerns around opioid misuse with concerns related to health literacy, and one can see how the healthcare team has an important job to tackle to address concerns and support patients and clients.