title: Culturally competent care: using the ESFT model in nursing.
authors.affiliation: Kenya V. Beard is associate vice president for curriculum and instruction and director of the Center for Multicultural Education and Health Disparities at Jersey College, Teterboro, NJ, and a member of the AJN editorial board. Eunice Gwanmesia is a lecturer in the Department of Nursing at Delaware State University, Dover. Gina Miranda-Diaz is an assistant professor in the Department of Nursing at Lehman College, City University of New York, and a lecturer at Rutgers University School of Nursing, New Brunswick, NJ. Contact author: Kenya V. Beard, kbeard@jerseycollege.edu. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
authors.forename: Kenya V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Beard
authors.forename: Eunice
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gwanmesia
authors.forename: Gina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Miranda-Diaz
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D065246:Culturally Competent Care / Q000592:standards*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000208:ethnology*; D040361:Healthy People Programs / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D054525:Minority Health / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D014481:United States