The purpose of the Culturally Competent Care (CCC) Unit
is to realize the means by which we interact with others in a society. It is also to notice our unconscious biases that
come from media and other influences. In
addition, we needed to attach it to cultural awareness in a medical setting.
Culture is the mannerisms that a person or society have
or pick up throughout their life or time period. Our class came up with several types of
culture such as gender, life experiences, music, and literacy. Culture covers many differences that appear
throughout our society. These
differences are important to realize because of different customs that may
arise from different cultures.
Being culturally competent is important everywhere and it
is no different in a medical setting. Cultural
awareness creates a comfortable environment amongst patients and
coworkers. A comfortable environment
leads to better communication, respect, teamwork, and innovation. With these benefits a hospital and workplace
become more effective and pleasant to be associated within.
Implicit Association is when you have an unconscious
association between two topics such as certain races and adjectives such as
good and bad. The results of a test over
topics like those may be shocking to people who think they don’t have
biases. What people are thinking
subconsciously can amaze them. The
results were shocking to me when I took a test for Implicit Associations.
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