title: Cultural competence in patient education.
abstract: As a community health nurse, have you tested your cultural consideration quotient in patient education recently? Can you define the difference between ethnocentrism and multiculturalism? Do you find that you and your colleagues work with more or less transcultural nursing in your daily practice? Find out why cultural competence is vital to nurses' success in the 21st century.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garity
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D003162:Competency-Based Education; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011361:Professional Competence; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States