Provide a 5 pages analysis while answering the following question: Cultural Competency as a Paramount Necessity Amongst Health Care Professionals. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The availability of cultural competency among health care professionals is very paramount in their profession, as in most cases, previous situations provide that a lack of cultural competency among health care providers and their support staff may result in a mismatch between the needs and wants of a patient as contrasted to the recommendations of the caregiver. This is most cases leads to poor service delivery from caregivers, and lack of satisfaction from the patients.

Culture covers a wide expanse of concepts and not necessarily confined to race. It incorporates numerous aspects of the community such as disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, ethnicity, as well as, education levels. Consequently, the broad construct of cultural competency requires students of medicine, as well as, those taking physician-assistance courses, or any other health relates course to explore it through community exposures. This understanding of the requirements of cultural competencies enables healthcare professionals to come up with educational programs that enhance multicultural competencies of students, and as such, guarantee proper delivery of services

A quantitative approach uses a confirmatory or deductive or top-down scientific approach that is instrumental to researchers when they want to describe, predict or explain a situation or phenomenon through the data obtained from a given sample. In such a research design, the investigator tests hypothesis and theories with collected data based on numerical data, and most typically through analysis of variables. These variables in such an approach or analysis include depended variables, categorical variables, quantitative variables, independent variables, as well as, mediating variables. A researcher tests variables in their inclusion within a study in order to ascertain whether it has an impact, or not on one factor or the other.