Two Change Concepts and potential strategies for Culturally Competent Care:

1. Embed evidence-based guidelines into daily practice and share information with families to encourage participation in care.

• Use, and tailor, as needed, evidence-based guidelines for all patient populations.
• Inform patients of the availability of guidelines pertinent to their care.

2. Provide clinicians access to reliable resources for learning about health beliefs and practices of cultural groups in the community.

• Gather population demographics, epidemiological statistics about disparities in health and health care, prevalent health beliefs and healing traditions for predominant cultures served (e.g., breast feeding, parenting, immunizations.)