INTRODUCTIONThe nurse-patient relationship is therapeutic because it improves the patient's well-being and helps them gain independence as quickly as possible, thereby helping the patient to develop more confidence and self-esteem, which nourishes their hope in the nursing profession and satisfies their physiological needs through knowledge and good skills (Wenniljoy, 2012). This is why a group of nursing students from Kent State University in Salem deem it appropriate to travel to Toronto, Canada, on January 21, 2014, for a cultural exchange program; where they can gain more knowledge about cultural diversity and soft skills for role transition and health care delivery, and during this high-impact program, during the “what students had” segment to say,” Haeli Todd said, “This trip opened my eyes to a lot of different cultures. I learned that we have a lot of prejudices in us, but (they) knocked it out of the park. I will remember it for the rest of my life” (www.salem.kent.edu, 2014). In consonance, knowing the origin and impact of a concept can help explain its forms. Over the years, nursing curricula have shown that nursing students and registered nurses are technically trained and competent, but may nevertheless perform incompetent and impractical procedures due to ignorance or unwillingness to acquire knowledge about cultural diversity (West, 1994). According to some, nurses mostly fail to provide sensitive and essential health care to clients from community subgroups (Gerrish & Papadopoulos, 1999). However, cultural competence should still have its foundation in health care, as the world's population embraces more multiculturalism; taking for example the United States as a multicult...... middle of paper ......cirrhosis disease. She said the language barrier must have created feelings of loneliness and fear, because when I entered her room, I immediately noticed the fear and pain in her eyes. He was grimacing and had tears in his eyes, which broke my heart. But he heard my greeting in Spanish, his appearance changed, he smiled and asked me if I spoke the language, and I answered “yes”. He said, “Hay, gracias,” meaning thank you, with a sigh of relief. He was able to tell me about his abdominal pain and his arrival in the emergency room. Being a culturally competent nurse will improve good nursing communication skills and marketability, and also provide adequate care to your patients (Ward, 2014). CONCLUSION In agreement with In the above discussion, I am thus making a logical critique of the Western quote that the nursing profession has made great strides in terms of growth and development..