title: Community-based approaches to strengthen cultural competency in nursing education and practice.
abstract: This article explores existing informal as well as formal approaches that address health disparities in the communities where they occur, enhancing the opportunity to strengthen the cultural competency of providers, students, and faculty. A particular focus centers on the community-based participatory research approaches that involve community members, providing opportunities to develop mutually respectful, trusting relationships through co-teaching and co-learning experiences. With community-based participatory research approaches to community involvement in place, the stage is set for partnerships between communities and schools of nursing to collaboratively design, implement, and integrate informal and formal cultural competence components in nursing curricula.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy Lois Ruth
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Evelyn Ruiz
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Calvillo
authors.forename: Marie Ngetiko
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Fongwa
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel / Q000208:ethnology; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006302:Health Services Research; D040361:Healthy People Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015141:Los Angeles; D016294:Models, Nursing; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D035502:Trust