This chapter provides nurses with strategies to pursue a course of developing cultural competence as a means of providing culturally relevant nursing care for clients (individuals and aggregates, including families and communities) who are culturally different from the nurse's own culture. Emphasis is on clients from four culturally diverse groups: African-Americans, Asians, Native Americans/Alaskan Natives, and Hispanics. Although there is much cultural and ethnic diversity present within and among these groups,