National CLAS Standards Assignment

These questions must be answered in essay form with at least one peer reviewed nursing journal article and info from the website I provided below in APA.

Describe how organizations can develop cultural competency?

How is your organization (past or present) complying with The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care(CLAS) as discussed in the Office of Minority Health (OMH) website?

What changes could still be made from a leadership standpoint?

How does cultural competence improve the quality of services in health care? Please refer to the CLAS standards as discussed in your textbook and the OMH website from the hyperlink below and provide specific examples from your organization.

National CLAS Standards from the Office of Minority Health (OMH)

http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=53

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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.