LibGuides: Cultural Competency Resources at Summa: Cultural Competency Resources

Cultural Competency Resources

The Summa Medical Library has a few print books on cultural competency that can be borrowed. Ask a librarian for help in finding them.

In addition, here are some additional E-Books and websites that may be helpful:

E-BOOKS
Cultural Competencies for Nurses
An eBook in the R2 Digital Library.
Cultural Competence in Health Care
An eBook available through OhioLINK.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach
An eBook in the R2 Digital Library
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care
An eBook in the R2 Digital Library
Religion, Religious Ethics, and Nursing
Includes information about several major religions. Designed to enable the nurse to provide respectful and sensitive care for people from a variety of faith backgrounds. An eBook in the R2 Digital Library.
WEBSITES
EthnoMed
An ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about certain immigrant and refugee groups.
National Center for Cultural Competency
A variety of resources on self-assessment, distance learning, publications, and more. From Georgetown University
Culture Clues
Tips sheets for clinicians on different cultures for the University of Washington Medical Center
Think Cultural Health (includes CLAS Standards)
CLAS stands for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services. These National Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by establishing a blueprint for health and health care organizations. See also the Standards document available for download in box on the right.
Refugee Health Profiles (from the CDC)
From the CDC website's section on Immigrant and Refugee Health. Includes health profiles of Bhutanese, Burmese, Minor Children from the Central Americas, Congolese, Iraqi, Somali, & Syrian cultures
Medline Plus : Health Infiormation in Many Languages
Health information in multiple languages, arranged by language.
MedlinePlus: Multi-language health information, arranged by topic
Health topics are listed in alphabetical order. Under the topic is listed the various languages in which that health topic information is given.

CLAS Standards Document

National CLAS Standards - Download the PDF

See also the link to the Think Cultural Health website in box on the left for more extensive information on the Standards.

Nepalese & Bhutanese

Cultural & Background Information

From Bhutan to Nepal, From Nepal to the United States
Population Movement Information
Culture & History of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese
Webpage from the EthnoMed website
Population Profile of Bhutanese Refugees
From CDC's Immigrant and Refugee Health website

Patient Ed / Health Promotion for Bhutanese & Nepalis

Patient Education iin Nepali
This site has printable information pages on a variety of common health topics. This information is from the NLM's MedlinePlus website.
Patient Education in Dzongkha (native language of Bhutan)
Patient education for Bhutanese. This site, as of yet, has printable information pages only on various aspects of influenza. Presumably, topics will be added in the future. This information is from the NLM's MedlinePlus website