Özet:

Diversity is increasing in societies where different cultures live together. With the increase in diversity, nurses have started to care for individuals with different characteristics. Providing care to individuals from different cultures not only brings difficulties to nursing care, but also provides convenience. Culturally adequate caregiving positively affects the quality of care and post-care outcomes. Cultural competence level of nurses is one of the important factors affecting the quality of care of patients. This research was carried out with 182 nurses who work at Samsun Ondokuz Mayıs University Health Practice and Research Center and agreed to participate in the research. The research was designed as descriptive and cross-sectional type, questionnaire on descriptive features and developed by Perng and Watson (2012) and Gözüm et al. (2016) was used for validity and reliability studies. It was used as a data collection tool in the study. The average age of the nurses participating in the research is 34.57, 67.0% of them are undergraduate graduates, 66.5% of them are married, and most of the nurses (94.5%) live in the province for a long time. centre. Most of the nurses (72.5) stated that they had given care to foreign patients from different cultures before. The cultural competence level of the nurses (51.42±13.85) was found to be moderate.The cultural diversity that has increased with the migration of people from many different cultures to Turkey due to human mobility in the last 10 years has once again revealed the importance of cultural competence in caregiving.. In order to improve the cultural competence levels of nurses, activities should be organized to increase the knowledge level of the patients they care for and to introduce different cultures.

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