UODP043 Transcultural Nursing

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lenka Špirudová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lenka Špirudová, Ph.D.
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course teaches how to perceive specific as well as common signs of student's own culture and foreign cultures and how to work with them in the process of nursing for the benefit of patients, their families and communities. The context of transcultural nursing instruction is the Czech medical environment with its demographic characteristics and the environment of the Czech majority. Learning outcomes: Professional knowledge: Having finished the course, the students shall explain the significance of the transcultural conception in nursing, summarize the principles of M. Leininger's model of "sunrise" and prepare culturally-modified assessment of foreign patients' needs and summarize basic ethical principles and standards of transcultural nursing. They shall explain the significance of ethnocentrism and its demonstrations in practice of medical staff. Professional skills: Having studied the recommended bibliography and elaborated the tasks and solved the problems, the students shall be more perceptive - sensitive to cultural identifiers of each individual, which they perceive as the most important, they shall be able to assess each individual in respect to their social and cultural or ethnical specifics, they shall be able to form a culturally-modified nursing care plan and they shall communicate with people with specific communication needs more effectively. General ability: Having finished the course, the student shall be able to deal with the clients coming from different cultures appropriately and adequately. Competence: The student who has finished the course of Transcultural nursing is ready to participate in active protection, maintaining and restoring of health to people coming form different cultures and subcultures in the subsequent nursing practice, they shall be able to work with a nursing process method as well as with adaptation to care of patients with specific needs, use empathetic support for patients and their families to gain confidence and cooperation in therapy and treatment, develop specific communication skills in relation to specific needs of each patient and his/her relatives within a cultural framework.
Syllabus
  • Seminars:
    1. Introduction to transcultural nursing.
    2. Leininger's model of cultural similar and different care based on diversity and universality.
    3. The "sunrise" model.
    4. Ethnonursing assessment, short and extended.
    5. Transcultural assessment model according to Gigar-Davidhizar. Structure for individual assessment.
    6. Application of cultural assessment in nursing assessment of conditions of patients' needs in the Czech Republic.
    7. Specifics of the Czech social and cultural community and medical system.
    8. Human spirituality and its significance in health and illness, effects on the way of life. Spiritual issues - nursing diagnoses.
    9. Specifics of selected social and cultural and ethnical communities in the Czech Republic 1.
    10. Specifics of selected social and cultural and ethnical communities in the Czech Republic 2.
    11. Cultural identifiers.
    Practical sessions:
    1. Ethnonursing assessment, short and extended.
    2. Transcultural assessment model according to Gigar-Davidhizar. Structure for individual assessment..
    3. Contemplation about ourselves - as members of the majority, medical staff and system, in which nurses are professionals.
Literature
    required literature
  • NEMČEKOVÁ, M., ŠPIRUDOVÁ, L. Leiningerové teorie kulturně shodné a rozdílné péče založené na různorodosti a univerzálnosti. In Ošetřovatelství, konceptuální modely a teorie. Eds. K. Žiaková, D. Jarošová, J. Čáp. Ostrava: ZSF, OU v Ostravě, 2008. ISBN 80-7368-068-8. info
  • MASTILIAKOVÁ, D., ARCHALOUSOVÁ, A. a kol. Multikulturní ošetřovatelství 1 [online]. c2008 [cit. 4. dubna 2008]. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2008. URL info
  • ŠPIRUDOVÁ, L., TOMANOVÁ, D., KUDLOVÁ, P., HALMO, R. Multikulturní ošetřovatelství II. Praha: Grada, 2006. ISBN 80-247-1213-X. info
  • IVANOVÁ, K., ŠPIRUDOVÁ, L., KUTNOHORSKÁ, J. Multikulturní ošetřovatelství I. Praha: Grada, 2005. ISBN 80-247-1212-1. info
  • ŠPIRUDOVÁ, L. a kol. Překonávání kulturních a komunikačních bariér při péči o pacienty odlišných etnik a kultur. Olomouc: LF UP, 2002. info
    recommended literature
  • GIGER, J. N., DAVIDHIZAR, R. E. Trancultural Nursing. Assessment & Intervention. St. Louis: Mosby, 1999. ISBN 0-3230-0287-0. info
  • ANDREWS, M. M., BOYLE, J. S. Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1999. ISBN 0-7817-1038-3. info
  • LEININGER, M. Leininger´s Theory of Nursing: Cultural Care Diversity and Universality. In Nursing Science Quarterly. 1988. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Seminář 12 HOD/SEM.
Teacher's information
A credit is allocated for elaboration of 3 tasks (1 extended one, 2 short ones) which students choose form the offer of three extended tasks (these are situation case reports to be solved) and six short tasks. The tasks are to be completed through the e-learning interface. After acceptance of the tasks by the teacher, the student is allocated a credit.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019.
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