Cultural Competence Continuum

Family-centred care can be defined as the collective efforts between the health care providers and family in making informed healthcare decisions thus ensuring optimal health care delivery.
The general principles of family-centred care are; Information sharing, Respect and honoring differences, Partnership and collaboration, Negotiation, Care in context of family and community.
Evidence shows that family-centred care helps in the following ways such as ;
- It leads to efficient use of resources and support health, transition and cost containment.
- It increases family's understanding and sharing in decision making.
- It may increase their sense of respect from the medical team.
- It may increase provider’s sense of teamwork.
- It may generate

Cultural competence can be defined as the ability of a system or organization to work effectively across cultures in a way that accepts, understands, respects and builds upon the cultural and linguistic diversity of the person or organization being served. Cultural competence is important because it increases respect, mutual understanding, trust and cooperation among diverse individuals in an organization. It promotes participation, inclusion and equality and also increases creativity in problem solving through new perspectives, ideas and strategies
3. The six stages of cultural competence continuum are ;
- Cultural destructiveness is represented by attitudes, policies, and practices within a system which are destructive to cultures and the individuals within the culture. Examples include exclusion laws, genocide or ethnocide.
- Cultural incapacity is lack of capacity of systems and organizations to help culturally and linguistically diverse groups due to extremely biased beliefs in racial superiority of dominant group.
- Cultural blindness is the belief that services used by the dominant culture are universally applicable regardless of race or culture.
- Cultural pre- competence is a level of awareness within systems or organizations of their strengths and areas for growth to respond effectively to culturally