Implicit and explicit biases, stereotypes, othering, and ethnocentrism play a role in nurses’ interactions with clients. Personal factors that affect a nurse’s ability to provide culturally responsive care include value system, beliefs, customs, cultural identity, and knowledge and attitudes about other cultures.

Cultural identity is the unique combination of beliefs, values, attitudes, behaviors, customs, practices, experiences, and language that make up an individual’s sense of belonging to a particular group. To provide culturally and linguistically responsive nursing care, nurses must develop cultural humility and awareness and prioritize client self-determination

culturally responsive care — the process of providing care to individuals or populations while fully considering their cultural backgrounds, values, and preferences; involves actively making sure that all…. explicit bias — overt prejudicial attitudes or preconceptions that exist at a conscious, intentional level and are often expressed verbally. biases — prejudicial attitudes or preconceptions that act as filters to the way one perceives, interprets, and reacts to the world. cultural humility — acknowledging, respecting, and valuing cultural differences by taking responsibility for one’s own perceptions and ideas; cultivating a deep respect for all cultures represented….