Subject

Transcultural Nursing

  • code 09823
  • course 4
  • term Semester 1
  • type op
  • credits 3

Module: Module MINORS (Choose one minor)

Matter: International Nursing

Not specified

Teaching staff

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

Introduction

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.

 

Pre-course requirements

  • Not required

Objectives

 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.

 

 

 

Competences / Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • 21. B - Oral and written communication.
  • 22. G - Use and management of information and research
  • 29. B - Know the scientific terminology in another language (English).
  • 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
  • 7. B - Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects, as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, ensuring their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.

Learning outcomes of the subject

 

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.

 

Syllabus

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
      2. http://vimeo.com/5317622

Teaching and learning activities

In person

 

1-Lectures: 35% of the time (approximate).

 

2.- Individual work: Reading, Portfolio and class tasks.

 

3.- Group work: Case method

 

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person

 

(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)

 

Bibliography and resources

-Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory. Madeleine M. Leininger,Marilyn R. McFarland

Teaching and learning material

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