Cultural Sensitivity

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Cultural Sensitivity and Global Success
Cultural sensitivity entails recognizing and appreciating the cultural differences or values that are practiced by different ethnic groups or people without assigning them a metric of whether they are right or wrong. As such, cultural sensitivity allows an individual to recognize that people are diverse in terms of what they stand for (Marshall, 2016). In a cultural diversified environment, people from different groups understand and respect the culture of the other group. In the health sector industries, cultural health is important to ensure that disparities in providing health care are reduced by responding to patient’s needs regardless of what are his or her beliefs. It is the responsibility of a health care provider to adjust to the changing patient demography in order to provide care that is culturally sensitive (Marshall, 2016).
Gaining knowledge involves looking for materials related to the subject of interest. In order to reduce ignorance about issues and traditions concerning a different group of people, both the employees and the organization must be actively involved (Henson, 2016). For starters, the organization could introduce a formal training session that teaches the employees on how to take into account the cultural diversity. This enables the employees to provide a high-quality service to the clients or the patients. Additionally, the organization needs to celebrate the diversity of the different groups in the organization (Henson, 2016).

Further, the organization should encourage their staff to engage in discussions with patients and colleagues on matters relating to cultural diversity. Furthermore, the health practitioners should encourage the patients to share their ideas concerning culturally sensitive health care. Through their response to these topics, the health care providers get to actively learn and appreciate the client’s values.
Learning about other people’s values helps us to understand how they conduct themselves. As such, as health care providers, we need to be proactive about cultural sensitivity rather than wait until an event occurs to alert us.
References
Henson, R. (2016). Successful global leadership: frameworks for cross-cultural managers and organizations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Marshall, L. (2016). Mastering patient & family education: a healthcare handbook for success. Indianapolis, IN Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing.