CULTURAL COMPETENCE

Cultural Competence: A Concept Analysis

Cultural Competence: A Concept Analysis

Introduction

Concepts are building blocks for theoretical development. A concept analysis offers a clear explanation of the chosen concept, including its functions, determining characteristics, associated concepts, and its applicability to the chosen field (Walker & Avant, 1995). According to Knafl and Deatrick (2000) concept analysis typically “entails synthesizing existing views of a concept and distinguishing it from other concepts' with the purpose of resolving gaps or inconsistencies in the knowledge base of the discipline. It is one means whereby members of the discipline can define or clarify concepts that relate to their phenomena of interest and make clear their pattern of usage, which in turn can become a precursor of theory and knowledge development, to ultimately improve practice. Thus, concept analysis concerned with boundary work that guides the discipline and forms the links between research, theory and practice. The concept of reassurance chosen for analysis as of its significance to practice. It is an overused but little understood concept. Reassurance is regularly declared in nursing literature and in nursing practice.

Though, there is no usually established description of its variety of meanings, and a number of arguments over its beneficial assessment. Health care providers always employ the act of “reassuring the patient” but the complexity of the concept made its use have different outcomes. The aim of this concept analysis is to give an obvious description of reassurance as it narrates to nursing, recognize its individuality, portray cases, and enlarge on the accessible literature and producing a differentiation from its function in other fields. A more mysterious investigation this strange expression will recover nursing pattern and converted use this formulate to “assure the patient.”

Uses of the Concept Analysis

Various explanations for reassurance can be encountered in phrase book and during the text associated to several fields. The entailing of the conception of reassurance is instantly depending on the subject and the circumstance in which it is employed.

In mass media, the concept used when they are giving information to the public through the use of Internet, television, newspapers, and radio when there are false predicted dangers such as calamities, shortage of supplies, epidemics and the likes. An example would be of concept of reassurance in mass media was during the phenomenal tsunami happened in Japan last March 11, 2011, Friday. The tsunami caused an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude in Richter scale. Tall building structures in Japan destructed, many people wounded and there were a big number of casualties. Knowing that the Philippines is just few miles away from the core of the disaster, there were speculations that massive tsunami will hit Philippines. Many people became anxious about the speculations. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reassured the public through the utilization of mass media that the public should not be too much worried because they received reports of sea level data indicating that the present tendency of experimental wave heights recommend that the menace of a risky disaster has ...