I. COURSE DESCRIPTION

Nursing 303 is a course which focuses on strategies for providing culturally competent nursing care to a multi-cultural society. Theoretical models and assessment tools are used to examine the diversity of cultural beliefs, values and practices that impact the health of individuals and groups. Placement: either semester junior year in traditional program; after meeting prerequisites in ADP program.

At the successful completion of this course, students will have:

1. Analyzed selected theoretical frameworks of transcultural nursing models

 
2. Utilized a theoretical framework to perform a cultural assessment

 
3. Examined the interrelatedness of the components of culture and health.

 
4. Examined how culture influences the health of individuals, families & communities

 
5. Examined traditional views of health and illness of selected cultures.

 
6. Identified strategies used to provide culturally competent care

 
7. Analyzed their use of culturally competent nursing strategies in a professional nursing encounter.

 

This course will be delivered using technology enhanced learning as much as possible. Teaching- learning strategies will include:

1. Reading, reflecting, and journaling (via e-mail)

 
2. Seminar

 
3. Videos

 
4. Experiential activities and exercises

 
5. Writing

 
6. Using the course Web Page and the Internet

 

The seven concepts upon which the curriculum are based permeate this course. The overriding concept, health, is implicit in all that is taught and learned in this course. The three process concepts, critical thinking, caring, and communication are a component of many of the content topic areas for this course. The remaining frame of reference concepts, systems, transition, and culture are particularly seen in the course content as identified here.
 

1. When a student is found responsible for cheating, plagiarism, and/or falsification in this course, the student will earn a course grade of F and a report will be sent to the School of Nursing, Academic Affairs Committee for consideration of sanctions.
Such acts include but are not limited to:
1. Copying answers from other students' answer sheets.
2. Using the work of other students as his/her own.
3. Taking and passing off as one's own ideas, writings, etc. of another person without appropriate documentation.
4. Giving false clinical information either verbally or in writing.
5. Placing an individual's health and well-being at risk.

 

1. Complete 4 journal entries.
2. Facilitate and participate in seminars.
3. Write a paper which reflects your understanding and use of one cultural assessment model with a client(s)/family from a culture different from your own.

 

The following scale will be used to determine the final grade for the course:

The grade will be based upon:

 

1. Paper	35%
2. Journal	25%
3. Seminar preparation     and participation	20%

 4. Final examination     20%

1. Required

Andrews, M.M. & Boyle, J.S. (1999). Transcultural concepts in nursing care (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company.

Fadiman, A. (1997). The spirit catches you and you fall down. New York: The Noonday Press

Additional Resources

Office of Minority Resource Center
    http://www.omhrc.gov
Diversity Rx
    http://www.DiversityRx.org
Transcultural & Multicultural Health Links
    http://www.lib.iun.indiana.edu/trannurs.htm
Four Winds Food Specialists
    http://eatethnic.com
Ethnomed
    http://www.hslib.washington.edu/clinical/ethnomed
Maternal and Child Health National Center for Cultural Competence
    http://www.dml.georgetown.edu/depts/pediatrics/gucdc/cultural.html
National Multicultural Institute
    http://www.nmci.org
Minority Health Program
    http://www.minority.unc.edu
Cross-Cultural Health Care Program at pacific Medical Clinics
    http://www.xculture.org

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Karen H. Martens, Ph.D., RN
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