Cultural competence in critical care nurses and its relationships with empathy, job conflict, and work engagement: a cross-sectional descriptive study

Cultural competence is more important than ever for nurses today; therefore, it may be helpful to learn more about it and examine how it relates to empathy, job conflict, and work engagement. The purpose of this study was to determine (a) the level of cultural competence, empathy, job conflict, and...

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Published in:BMC nursing 2023-04, Vol.22 (1), p.113-113, Article 113
Main Authors: Soleimani, Mohsen, Yarahmadi, Sajad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Child & adolescent mental health
Clinical outcomes
Critical care
Critical care nurse
Cultural competence
Culture
Empathy
Ethical aspects
Evaluation
Health care policy
Hospitals
Hypotheses
Intensive care nursing
Job conflict
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Nurses
Nursing care
Nursing education
Patient satisfaction
Pediatrics
Psychiatric-mental health nursing
Services
Social aspects
Work Engagement
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Summary:Cultural competence is more important than ever for nurses today; therefore, it may be helpful to learn more about it and examine how it relates to empathy, job conflict, and work engagement. The purpose of this study was to determine (a) the level of cultural competence, empathy, job conflict, and work engagement; (b) the relationship between cultural competence, demographic information, and main variables; (c) the predictors of cultural competence among critical care nurses. A multicenter, descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Iran from August to October 2022. Through convenience sampling, 153 critical care nurses from three hospitals participated. The research tool consisted of five parts: Demographic information questionnaire, Cultural Competence Questionnaire, Jefferson Scale Empathy, Dobrin Job Conflict, and Utrecht Work Engagement, which were collected by paper self-report. Descriptive statistics, the correlation between variables, and linear regression were used to analyze the data. Among critical care nurses (response rate 79.27%), the mean (SD) scores for cultural competence, empathy, job conflict, and work engagement were 74.05 (7.96), 83.44 (29.17), 11.00 (2.38), and 43.69 (16.33), respectively. There was a significant correlation between cultural competence and age (r = 0.46, p = 0.001), marital status (r = 0.27, p = 0.004), academic degree (r = 0.44, p = 0.001), work experiences (r = 0.43, p = 0.001), empathy (r = 0.50, p = 0.001), and job conflict (r=-0.16, p = 0.049). Academic degree (β = 0.36, p 
ISSN:1472-6955
1472-6955
DOI:10.1186/s12912-023-01285-x