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January 14th, 2019
Transcultural Nursing Skills Self-AssessmentForm
| Please indicate (with an X) either Yes or No to the following questions related to your current transcultural nursing skills. | ||
| Transcultural Nursing Skills | Yes | No |
| I make a concerted effort to pronounce my patients’ first and last names even when they seem “strange” to me. | x | |
| I realize that learning about different cultures is a life-long experience. | x | |
| I understand the differences between interpreters and translators. | x | |
| I step out of my comfort zone to assess, understand, and deal with my own prejudices | x | |
| I always demonstrate a caring attitude with all my patients regardless of the color of their skin or their ethnic background. | x | |
| Sometimes I take it personally when a patient from a different culture does not understand my questions. | x | |
| Rarely do I reflect on how my own identify impacts how my transcultural patients perceive me. | x | |
| Often I recognize that learning styles may be different, and I adapt my teaching styles. | x | |
| I consistently model my acceptance of various cultures for other staff members. | x | |
| I accept suggestions for being more culturally sensitive from my coworkers. | x | |
| Total number of Nos and Yeses | 10 | |
*If you answered No to any of these questions, what do you need to do to be able to answer Yes within the next few weeks?
Complete Transcultural Nursing Skills Self-Assessment Form
Note the number of No answers in your self-assessment. Share one or two of your No answers with your classmates, and describe how you will convert the No to a Yes over the next few weeks.
What interventions are needed to turn each No into a Yes response?
