Cultural Competency for Nurse Practitioners
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are on the front lines of healthcare, engaging daily with patients from...
Health Equity Insights: cultural competency
Creating Inclusive Work Environments in Healthcare: ADA Compliance and Cultural Competency
Inclusivity is not just a legal obligation—it's a fundamental aspect of patient care and workplace...
Practical Strategies for Improving Disability Awareness in Healthcare
Disability awareness in healthcare is essential to providing equitable and compassionate care to...
Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month in Healthcare
Each year, from September 15 to October 15, the United States celebrates National Hispanic Heritage...
Oregon Dental Pros: What to Know About Cultural Competency for License Renewal
As a dentist, dental hygienist, or dental therapist in Oregon, staying up-to-date with continuing...
Cultural Competency and Implicit Bias in Oral Healthcare
As healthcare regulations increasingly mandate cultural competency and implicit bias training for...
Improving Patient Engagement With Cultural Competency
Patient engagement is essential for achieving positive health outcomes. It involves patients...
The Business Case for Cultural Competence in Healthcare
Cultural competence—the ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with...
How to Reduce Health Disparities with Cultural Competency
Reducing health disparities is essential to ensuring that all individuals have access to quality...
The Importance of Pronoun Use in Healthcare Settings
Pronouns are a fundamental aspect of our identities. For many individuals, especially those who are...
Advancing LGBTQ+ Mental Healthcare Through Cultural Competency
Cultural competency is essential for providing effective and compassionate mental healthcare,...
Cross-Cultural Care in Mental Health & Depression: Why Cultural Competency Training Matters
Cultural competency in mental healthcare is essential for healthcare providers to understand and...
Collecting REaL/SOGI Data with Cultural Competency
As the demographic makeup of the United States continues to evolve, with projections indicating...
Navigating Healthcare During Ramadan: A Guide for Clinicians
Developing cultural competency is essential for providing effective and empathic patient care. For...
Embracing Cultural Diversity in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges
As society becomes progressively diverse, the healthcare industry must evolve to meet the varied...
Cultural Barriers in Healthcare & Communication Techniques to Explore Them
Culture shapes almost every aspect of our lives, including our beliefs, customs, and daily...
The Importance of Cultural Awareness In Nursing
The ability of nurses to effectively communicate, understand, and provide high-quality care to...
How to Implement Cultural Competency Training for Your Healthcare Team
In today's healthcare landscape, cultural competency ranks as a top priority for healthcare...
Why Is Culturally Sensitive Therapy Important?
Within the field of mental health treatment, there's an urgent need for culturally competent mental...
Racial Health Equity in Healthcare Organizations
Quality Interactions is committed to empowering healthcare providers to provide equitable care...
Joint Commission Health Equity Standards
The Joint Commission, a leading nonprofit in the healthcare sector, accredits heathcare...
Explaining Cultural Competence vs Cultural Awareness
Cultural competence is a term that has been in use since the 1980s to describe the ability of...
DEI Planning for Healthcare Organizations
A diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan is a critical tool your healthcare organization can...
Culturally Competent Care in Telemedicine [Checklist]
Telemedicine has the potential to reshape the delivery of healthcare and improve health equity....
LEP Cultural Competency [Event Recap + Q&A]
The Quality Interactions webinar, "When Language Barriers Lead to Poor Patient Care (And What to Do...
Effective Communication with LEP Populations
Approximately 21.5 million individuals in the United States belong to the LEP population. For these...
10 Culturally Diverse Podcasts to Combat Implicit Bias
We recently updated our Implicit Bias course, "Recognizing and Responding to Implicit Bias." The...
Health Equity & Healthcare for LGBTQ Populations
The United States has a long history of anti-LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer)...
Cultural Competency and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable among us. This includes...
Quality Interactions Selected as ACAP Preferred Vendor
Quality Interactions’ pioneering cultural competency education was chosen by the Association for...
6 Culturally Sensitive Ways to Approach Mental Health
Culture impacts every mental health patient—and every mental health practitioner. Culture is a key...
Cultural Awareness in Healthcare: A Checklist
Culture is a complex concept. It includes people’s beliefs, values, behaviors, and ways of...
Border Walls: Cultural Competency and Considerations for the Hispanic/Latino Population
Culture has a profound impact on healthcare decision-making for Latino individuals and families....
Cultural Competency and Value-Based Care
The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other country. Yet we struggle with healthcare access...
How to Approach Medical Decision-Making Across Cultures
If you've grown up in the U.S., you're probably familiar with the concept of a patient's "right to...
What Is Health Literacy And Why Is It So Important?
Health literacy describes a person's ability to obtain and understand the medical information...