thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/clas/standards (Links to an external site.).
View the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Standards (CLAS) categories aimed at equity and quality care (HHS, n.d.). Notice how these standards overlap with many of the expectations and standards in professional nursing practice!
In what ways are you and your peers using these standards in your areas of nursing practice?
Discuss one nursing action you might incorporate to improve cultural competence in your organization.
I will also need one reply to two classmates, here are their discussion response:
Tacara: The purpose of CLAS standards, also known as Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service Standards, is to advance excellent care for patients from a variety of racial, social, and cultural backgrounds. By developing a leadership model focused on health, the standards hope to eradicate, advance and improve health care disparities. By conveying patients’ requirements, practitioners employ CLAS standards as a governance principle to advance the workforce. However, I make use of the improved CLAS standards to direct group initiatives aimed at raising the standard of care by assisting practitioners in addressing various health inequities through careful planning and interventions. Practitioners are highly encouraged to incorporate CLAS strategies to advance quality health care in the United States (Stalter
