Description:
This presentation reviews dimensions of culture, which influence care in advanced disease. Assessment of culture is emphasized as essential to adequate communication and in providing culturally competent care.

Objectives:

• Identify dimensions of culture and the influence of culture on palliative care for patients across the life span
• Conduct a cultural assessment of patients facing the end of life
• Discuss beliefs regarding death and dying held by various cultures
• Recognize the value of interdisciplinary care in respecting cultural diversity

*** Hospice Education Network is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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