Culturally competent care: Are we there yet?

The article presents information on culturally competent care and how can it can be used to lessen healthcare disparities among patients. Understanding motivation, purpose, and goals for becoming culturally competent is stated to be important. It is stated that one requires continuous self-evaluation, skill development, and knowledge about culturally diverse groups in becoming culturally competent. Barriers of cultural componentency is the lack of universally accepted definition for cultural competency as well as lack of evidence to support the use.