A Guide to Culturally Competent Healthcare
by Larry Purnell, PhD, RN, FAAN
Description
In A Guide to Culturally Competent Healthcare, Larry Purnell introduces the Model for Cultural Competence, a comprehensive framework designed to enhance cultural awareness and sensitivity among healthcare professionals. The model identifies twelve cultural domains: overview/heritage, communication, family roles and organization, workforce issues, bicultural ecology, high-risk behaviors, pregnancy and childbearing practices, death rituals, spirituality, healthcare practices, and healthcare practitioners.
The book serves as an educational resource to support intercultural learning in healthcare settings. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and respecting cultural differences in order to provide effective, compassionate, and patient-centered care to individuals from diverse backgrounds.
About the Author
Larry Purnell, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a distinguished educator and author in the field of nursing, known for his significant contributions to the development of cultural competence in healthcare. Dr. Purnell’s expertise extends to reaching and research, with a focus on transcultural nursing and the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence, which has been translated into multiple languages and is widely used in educational settings. His textbook, Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach won the Brandon Hill and American Journal of Nursing Book Awards.
Dr. Purnell is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, Purnell is a Transcultural Nursing Scholar and a member of TCNS since the late 1980s, a Luther Christman Fellow, and is featured on the Rosa Parks Wall of Fame for Teaching Tolerance. He has 100 book chapters and 16 textbooks, two of which are in Spanish and one in Portuguese. He has made presentations throughout the United States as well as in Australia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Great Britain, Scotland, Norway, Italy, Korea, Panama, Russia, Spain, Denmark, and Turkey. He is the US representative to the European Union’s Commission on Intercultural Communication that resulted from the Salamanca, Sorbonne, Bologna, and WHO Declarations.
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