Improving Cultural Competence in Pharmacy Practice

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  1. cultural competency is a key component for reducing
  2. health disparities in our current health care system.
  3. There are many interventions that should be implemented
  4. to improve the cultural competency of healthcare providers,
  5. improve patient trust and health care systems and
  6. improve patient outcomes for historically marginalized ethnic groups.
  7. Within the field of pharmacy,
  8. our goal is focused on eliminating regulated health disparities.
  9. His goal can be achieved through three key steps cultural confidence.
  10. He training for pharmacy providers,
  11. the use of interpreters and bilingual providers and the
  12. use of linguistically and culturally appropriate health education materials
  13. with an attitude of empathy, understanding and respect for all of our patients.
  14. We should always seek to improve drug
  15. related health disparities in our communities.
  16. The important steps of cultural competency are developing awareness,
  17. acquiring knowledge about cultural biases and maintaining
  18. cultural communication among patients and providers.
  19. Developing self awareness regarding any personal
  20. biases and acquiring knowledge are both necessary
  21. as it can increase provider's ability to acknowledge when and why biases occurred,
  22. maintaining cultural communication among patients and providers is
  23. combining acquiring knowledge and self awareness and putting them
  24. into action during patient provider encounters with cultural
  25. competency training implemented into the health care system.
  26. Health could be following patients getting trust
  27. and confidence and accessing health care resources.
  28. Language barriers are a major contributor of health
  29. disparities for patients with limited or no english proficiency
  30. in the pharmacy setting.
  31. Language barriers may result in core medication
  32. adherence or miscommunication of important safety information.
  33. This issue can be addressed at the structural level.
  34. By offering access to video or telephonic interpreting services,
  35. as well as recruiting a linguistically diverse staff
  36. to represent the languages spoken within a community.
  37. Employing these strategies will help to improve patient adherence,
  38. safety and satisfaction,
  39. ensuring education is linguistically and culturally appropriate is
  40. a key factor in improving cultural competency.
  41. Information should be up to date and representative
  42. of the many different backgrounds in our society.
  43. To improve appropriateness of cultural education.
  44. It would be beneficial for providers to have a solid understanding of vulture on a
  45. broad spectrum and a more in depth
  46. knowledge of culture specific to their community.
  47. Focusing education on culture is prevalent in their community can
  48. be more effective and applicable in their patient care setting.
  49. In conclusion, by implementing these three main interventions,
  50. we will ideally see improvements
  51. in cultural competency of pharmacy providers,
  52. improved patient trust and health care systems and
  53. improved patient outcomes for historically marginalized ethnic groups.
  54. And with these improvements,
  55. we would hopefully see elimination of drug related health disparities.
  56. Lastly here, you can see the contributions made
  57. and the citations of the two articles referenced for the information presented.
  58. Thank you