Pediatricians and Pediatric Nurses in the Delivery of Culturally Competent Care: A Scoping Literature Review to Investigate Progress and Issues around Culturally Diverse Care in Pediatrics
Journal Title: Pediatrics and Neonatal Nursing – Open Journal - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The demographics in the United States are rapidly changing. In 2012, 47.2% of the children who lived in the United Stated were of color. However, three out of four physicians identified themselves as White non-Hispanic and approximately 83% of nurses are White, non-Hispanic. The changing demographics and increasing diversity of the population has an impact on care and quality of care being delivered by pediatric healthcare providers to children and their families. In 2005, The Office of Minority Health reported that the main ingredient in closing the gap in health care disparities is cultural competency. This scoping literature review investigated how pediatricians and pediatric nurses were progressing with their delivery of culturally competent care. The studies in the review revealed that the delivery of culturally competent care by pediatric health care providers has been a slow and difficult process and that there are identified areas of improvement. Pediatricians, pediatric nurses, other pediatric health care providers and families whose children received health care services from these providers were participants in the studies reviewed. Health care providers reported that more cultural competence training and education was necessary. Families in several studies identified communication/ linguistics and the provider’s ability to be more open and aware as areas where more cultural education and training are needed.
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Teresa Castro Twomey
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