(26) Pioneer of Disaster Medicine and Hospital Disaster Planning Education in Turkey: Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey (EMAT)
Bildiriler > Özet Bildiri
Yazarlar: M. E. Ersel
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, , , Uluslararası, Özet Bildiri, cilt 22, ss S21-S21
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x00060295
Özet
Discussion: Cultural competence is a model that gives the impression that healthcare professionals can develop culturally competent care; however, it masks the impossibility of achieving such an advance.This over-presumptuous model promotes the idea that Western emergency healthcare professionals can learn CALD health beliefs, yet it belies a lifetime of cultural learning which constructs and confirms culturally nuanced perspectives about health.Conclusion: The usefulness of cultural competence is seen best as part of a developmental continuum.Now is the time to move beyond cultural competence and to develop a more contemporary model that affirms the need for Western emergency healthcare professionals to unpack their own cultural heritage and healthcare beliefs before encountering other cultures.Such a development moves caring across cultures from the myth of competence to an undertaking of responsiveness.