Undergraduate nursingSocial Justice BSN Social Justice Anti-racism Nursing Faculty Nursing Students Cultural Competency Nursing Academia
Abstract:
Cultural competency is embedded within current undergraduate nursing curriculum. It has become demanded of the profession because of imminent shift of patient demographics. Cultural competency continues to be taught as a fundamental respect of another’s various presentations of culture. However, it is difficult for this to be realistically applied to patients because nurses are being taught to exclusively relate to patients through stereotypes. This systematic review seeks to utilize current literature to shift the narrative of cultural competency by explicitly looking at social constructs like race. Isolating race from cultural competency will allow a proper investigation of why health disparities persist despite current efforts to mitigate them. This paper also seeks to illuminate on the relationship between cultural competency and nursing academia.
