Demographic shifts in the United States have resulted in an increasingly diverse multicultural and multigenerational population. Cultural competence is a core standard in the nursing curricula of undergraduate nursing programs. Nurses have the most contact with clients;therefore, must be comfortable and able to respond with appropriate cultural sensitivity, awareness, skills, and knowledge to help clients to improve their health outcomes while minimizing disparities in treatment and access. This quantitative study examined the students' perceptions of their levels of cultural competence by...