Language & Cultural Considerations

Posted May, 2020

Talking about Illness (videos)
Living My Culture, Canadian Virtual Hospice
http://livingmyculture.ca/topic/talking-about-illness/

 

Posted April 30, 2020

Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Pub. No. 10-0046-EF, 2010
https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/literacy-toolkit/healthliteracytoolkit.pdf


Guidelines for Providers of Psychological Services to Ethnic, Linguistic, and Culturally Diverse Populations
American Psychological Association, 1990
https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/policy/provider-guidelines


Promoting cultural and linguistic competency: Self-Assessment Checklist
for Personnel Providing Primary Health Care Services
Tawara D. Goode, National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown University
https://nccc.georgetown.edu/documents/Checklist%20PHC.pdf


Chapter Six: “Cultural Considerations when the Patient Speaks a Different Language” in Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care: Working with Diverse and Vulnerable Populations (2nd edition). Gloria Kersey-Matusiak. Springer Publishing Company, 2018.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=OypnDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Delivering%20Culturally%20Competent%20Nursing%20Care%2C%202nd%20Edition&pg=PA105#v=onepage&q=Delivering%20Culturally%20Competent%20Nursing%20Care,%202nd%20Edition&f=false

Embracing Cultural Diversity in Health Care: Developing Cultural Competence
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, 2007
*page 28 for Best Cultural Competence Practices for individuals
https://rnao.ca/sites/rnao-ca/files/Embracing_Cultural_Diversity_in_Health_Care_-_Developing_Cultural_Competence.pdf

Hilty, D. M., Gentry, M. T., McKean, A. J., Cowan, K. E., Lim, R. F., & Lu, F. G. (2020). Telehealth for rural diverse populations: telebehavioral and cultural competencies, clinical outcomes and administrative approaches. Mhealth, 6.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7136658/


If your patient doesn’t speak the same language as you . . .
https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1511