Denice Soyring-Higman, RN, BSN, MSN, founder and president of Soyring Consulting, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based clinical health care consulting company, said it pays to evaluate “any and all cultures” in the community surrounding a hospital to find out if there are cultural norms that need to be taken into consideration when it comes to patient care.
Soyring quoted by the Society for Human Resource Management on Cultural Competence in Healthcare