Cultural Competence in Nursing Scale (CCNS)

Personal experience/iterest

Total ISS# Score

Total CCNS Score

Overseas living experiences

Opportunities of meeting foreigners

No. of foreign patients cared for

Interest in/learning foreign languages

CCNS Total Score

0.355

**

0.290

**

0.315

**

0.233

*

0.400

**

CCNS Subscales

Awareness of one’s own culture

0.203

0.159

0.095

0.091

0.280

*

0.393

**

Approach-avoidance tendency

0.281

*

0.184

0.166

0.194

0.420

**

0.521

**

General cultural knowledge

0.243

*

0.206

0.221

*

0.279

*

0.128

0.674

**

Specific cultural knowledge

0.368

**

0.270

*

0.252

*

0.268

*

0.229

*

0.864

**

Cultural skills

0.001

0.055

0.219

*

0.016

0.326

**

0.587

**