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- Title: Using an Eclectic Model to Educate Students About Cultural Influences on the Nurse-Patient Relationship.
- Author : Nursing Education Perspectives
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 203 KB
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ABSTRACT This article describes how the concepts of cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural competence are integrated into the nursing curriculum at Lehman College, City University of New York. A culturally diverse student population engaged in lectures, classroom exercises, and clinical experiences in order to learn the ideas and imperatives of cultural diversity in nursing care. The exercises were problem-based learning experiences guided by a university-developed model for teaching students to understand cultural diversity. The model is derived from Leininger's comparative cultural caring model and Paterson and Zderad's humanistic nursing model By observing differences and similarities among diverse cultures, students learned that the assignment of cultural attributes is an inexact process and should be organized as hints rather than as certainties. Students also learned the importance of integrating cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural competence into their nursing care. CULTURAL DIVERSITY IS EMBLEMATIC OF LEHMAN COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (CUNY), FORTY-THREE PERCENT OF CUNY STUDENTS WERE BORN OUTSIDE THE UNITED) STATES. STUDENTS ORIGINATE FROM 167 COUNTRIES AND SPEAK 119 NATIVE LANGUAGES; 49 PERCENT HAVE A NATIVE LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH AT ONE TIME AT LEHMAN COLLEGE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN WERE REPRESENTED IN ONE CLASS OF 25 STUDENTS (I). * Lehman's diversity provides the opportunity to educate students about a myriad of cultures. The school of nursing builds on this opportunity with classroom exercises founded on problem-based learning techniques. Through assignments that ask students to examine an individual's cultural attributes and sensitivities, students are actively involved in the learning process (2). * Healthy People 2010 (3) points out that sensitivity to culturally inherent meanings of individuals is an obligation of health care providers. Such sensitivity facilitates the delivery of quality care and has the potential to enhance patient outcomes. It is therefore the responsibility of nurse educators to familiarize students with the cultural issues that impose themselves on nursing care. THIS ARTICLE SHOWS HOW THE LEHMAN FACULTY HAVE TAKEN ON THIS CHALLENGE.