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WEBCONNECT Online Resources Address Culturally Competent Care [By Deborah Braccia, RN, MPA, OCN ®, ONS Web Site Editor] s nurses, we care for patients from diverse backgrounds. We need to understand and provide care that is sensitive to these virtues. Culturally competent care is considered “the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to provide quality clinical care to patients from different cultural, ethnic, and racial backgrounds” (http://medweb.med.harvard.edu/cccec/about/index.htm). The following sites offer resources for providing culturally competent care. ✱ Deborah Braccia, RN, MPA, OCN ® Title ONS Multicultural Competent Care Clinical Resource Area National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities URL www.ons.org/clinical/special/multi cultural/index.shtml Description The ONS Web site’s gateway to information on culturally competent care A http://ncmhd.nih.gov Promotes minority health and leads, coordinates, supports, and assesses the National Institutes of Health’s effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities A unified force advocating for equity and justice in nursing and health care for ethnic minority populations The collective set of culturally and linguistically appropriate services mandates, guidelines, and recommendations issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health intended to inform, guide, and facilitate required and recommended practices related to culturally and linguistically appropriate health services Offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care Provides nurses and other healthcare professionals with the knowledge base necessary to ensure cultural competence in practice, education, research, and administration National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations www.ncemna.org National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services www.omhrc.gov/templates/browse .aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=15 Think Cultural Health www.thinkculturalhealth.org Transcultural Nursing Society www.tcns.org Visit ONS Connect Online for Active Links Don’t want to type all of the Web Connect URLs into your browser? Visit www.ONSConnect.org to check out ONS Connect’s digital edition, which has active links. 20 ONS CONNECT August 2008 http://medweb.med.harvard.edu/cccec/about/index.htm http://www.ons.org/clinical/special/multicultural/index.shtml http://ncmhd.nih.gov http://www.ncemna.org http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=15 http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org http://www.tcns.org http://www.ONSConnect.org

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