I work fora large county hosptial in MN - we serve a variety of cultures - we are going to be asking the Nurses and MD's to assess their cultural competence and then survey our pts - has anyone done this sort of research? Does anyone know of any tools that we might be able to use to accomplish this feat?

-- Maryellen Swanson (marcher5@aol.com), April 04, 2002

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You asked the question: "I work for a large county hospital in MN - we serve a variety of cultures - we are going to be asking the Nurses and MD's to assess their cultural competence and then survey our pts - has anyone done this sort of research? Does anyone know of any tools that we might be able to use to accomplish this feat?"

Please visit my website at www.transculturalcare.net & click under "IAPCC & Other Cultural Assessment Tools." I have developed a tool (Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professionals...IAPCC) that measures cultural competence among healthcare professionals (specially, RNs & MDs) as well as conducted an annotated bib on this topic. I hope you find my website helpful to you as you address cultural competence in your hospital....Josie

Josepha Campinha-Bacote, PhD, RN, CNS, BC, CTN, FAAN President, Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates 11108 Huntwicke Place Cincinnati, OH 45241 PH: (513) 469-1664 FAX: 1-513-469-1664 E-MAIL: meddir@aol.com Visit me at: www.tranculturalcare.net

-- Dr. Josepha Campinha-Bacote (meddir@aol.com), May 13, 2002.