Transcultural Nursing
Module: Module MINORS (Choose one minor)
Matter: International Nursing
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Head instructor
Office hours
Teachers of the subject via mail.
Finola Legget
Pilar Fuster
Xusa Serra
Date of renovation of the Teaching Guide: May 2012
The subject Transcultural Nursing is part of the International Nursing Programme. It’s made up of the theoretical side of Transcultural Nursing and it’s application in practice. It aims to empower the student to care for and work with people of different cultural backrounds. It will be taught mainly in English.
Transcultural Nursing
1. To understand the concept of a “Transcultural Nurse” based on Madeleine Leininger’s model (to offer Nursing Care that is centered on the culture and beliefs that the patient has on illness and health)
2. To become familiar with the concept of “Culture” and intercultural exchanges.
3. To become aware of the facts that determine the perception of Health and Illness in the different cultures.
4. To recognize people’s Customs, Values and Beliefs within their cultural context.
5. To create Nursing Care Plans within Cultural Diversity ( Transcultural Care).
6. To achieve effective Intercultural Communication.
Grief and death in different cultural environments
Ensure the emotional health of people in regular contact with situations of loss.
Detect difficulties before death and pain.
Humanizing dimension of "caring" and find meaning in life time.
Discover the creative involvement in mourning, in adults and children.
Prevent or detect a complicated grief. Tanatologia knowledge and the relationship of the different ways to die in the process of mourning.
To achieve a “Cultural Competency” in Nursing Practice, through the acquisition of both anthropological knowledge and communication skills.
To be able to understand, accept and respect all people within their social and cultural context.
To be trained to analyze new ways of interpreting and applying Nursing Practices and Care.
To achieve an Efficient transcultural oral and written Communication with patients and their families, social groups and co-workers.
To be able to suggest solutions to intercultural conflicts that arise in the work-place.
1-Transcultural Nursing (teachers Finola Legget and Pilar Fuster)
-Madeleine Leininger’s model: Health-illness concept, nursing care in this model. (The teacher will bePilarFuster)
- Concept of Culture.
- Concepts that differentiate the perception of health and illness in each culture.
- Decision making within different cultural values.
- Communication with different social groups, families… (Role-play, videos...)
- Class tasks: Nursing Care plans within cultural diversity
- Class group tasks: Solving practical cases (case method)
2-Death and Bereavement in different cultural settings (Xusa Serra s'impartirà en Català)
·Anthropological knowledge. Ways of life loss, and death rituals in different cultures· How to live disease, death and mourning today. Stages of the person who is preparing to die. Support creative illness and death. Dignified death. Living wills. Death at home or in hospital. Ways of dying and how they affect the grief process for families.
· Children, death and mourning. Mourning healthy. Factors that facilitate or complicate the process. Complicated grief process. People and risk factors
Chapter 1 Transcultural Nursing
Chapter 2 Death and Beravement in different cultural settings
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1-Lectures: 35% of the time (approximate).
2.- Individual work: Reading, Portfolio and class tasks.
3.- Group work: Case method
(Course evaluation will be made jointly by all teachers of the subject, taking into account the following criteria):
1.- Assistance and participation: 30% (approximate)
2.- Presentation of an individual portfolio: 40% (approximate)
3.- Participation and resolution of cases in groups, class tasks: 30% (approximate)