Cultural Competency and Disability Awareness for Dental Healthcare Providers

The following Cultural Competency and Disability Awareness for Dental Healthcare Providers training is designed to educate dental healthcare providers (DHCP) about the significance, principles, and standards of cultural competence, and provides awareness of disability inclusion and how to care for people with disabilities. The United States has a major division when looking at a person’s culture, race, and ethnicity. Despite recent progress in overall national health, disparities continue in the incidence of illness and death among African Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Alaska Natives, and Pacific Islanders, as compared with the US population as a whole. In addition, health and human service organizations are recovering the need to enhance services for culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare services requires an understanding of cultural competence.

What you will learn:

• Cultural competence
  • Background of cultural competence
  • Significance of cultural competence
  • Strategies for implementing cultural competence in healthcare
  • CLAS Standards
• Disability awareness
  • Disability inclusion
  • Importance of disability awareness and inclusion

Details

Course length: 30 minutes. CEU: 0.5

Languages: American English

Key features: Audio narration, learning activity, and post-assessment.

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What is Cultural Competency?

Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals that enable effective work in cross-cultural situations. Additionally, cultural competence is the integration and transformation of knowledge about individuals and groups of people into specific standards, policies, practices, and attitudes used in appropriate cultural settings to increase the quality of services; thereby producing better outcomes. It’s also a developmental process that evolves over an extended period. Both individuals and organizations are at various levels of awareness, knowledge, and skills along continuum.

Strategies to Implement Cultural Competence into your Practice

It is important to implement various cultural competency practices into your practice for the betterment of your staff and your patient’s overall experience. Some strategies include but are not limited to having a broad definition of culture and valuing clients’ cultural beliefs. Incorporating these practices into your dental practices as they emphasize the idea of effectively operating in different cultural contexts and altering practices to reach different cultural groups. However, cultural knowledge, sensitivity, and awareness do not include this concept. Although cultural knowledge, sensitivity, and awareness imply understanding of cultural similarities and differences, they do not include action or structural change. To learn more, click the button below and add these practices into your dental healthcare facility today!