The Importance of Developing Military Cultural Competence

The initiative of First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr Jill Biden, Joining Forces, has helped to create awareness and momentum to recognize a specific military culture and to standardize competence across the US national health care system. +Superscript 4 -Superscript An understanding of military cultur...

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Published in:Journal of emergency nursing 2013-11, Vol.39 (6), p.591-594
Main Authors: Convoy, Sean, Westphal, Richard J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Cultural Competency - psychology
Emergency Nursing - methods
Health care
Humans
Military Nursing - methods
Military personnel
Military Personnel - psychology
Nursing
Triage - methods
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Summary:The initiative of First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr Jill Biden, Joining Forces, has helped to create awareness and momentum to recognize a specific military culture and to standardize competence across the US national health care system. +Superscript 4 -Superscript An understanding of military culture can prove to be invaluable when caring for military veterans, reservists, and their family members in your emergency department. With this lens, seemingly innocuous pieces of information may be transformed into important insights. Insights foster dialogues. Dialogues solicit therapeutic rapports. Therapeutic rapports result in therapeutic alliances. Therapeutic alliances have the potential to play an important role in health care outcomes and lives.
ISSN:0099-1767
1527-2966
DOI:10.1016/j.jen.2013.08.010