INHIBITORS TO DEVELOPING CULTURAL COMPETENCE
Nurses fail to provide culturally competent nursing care for a variety of reasons: they may have had minimal opportunity for learning about cross-cultural nursing; their supervisors may be encouraging them to increase productivity at the expense of quality; or they may be pressured by colleagues who are not knowledgeable about cultural concepts and are offended when others use the concepts. These and similar issues may result in nurse behaviors such as stereotyping, prejudice and racism, ethnocentrism, cultural imposition, cultural conflict, and culture shock.