Description of the training program
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SEPARATION, DISEASES
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Themes covered in the training curriculum-Introduction and orientation with concepts of cultural care and the importance of education-Integration of cultural care into the nursing process- The need for multicultural education in higher education- Definition of culture and factors affecting cultural diversity- Cultural diversity and nursing education program- Cultural competencies and training program to prepare professors and students- Concerns and strategies in multicultural educationStrategies for integrating cultural and linguistic competence into nursing education- National documents/standards- Healthy People 2020 etc. for culturally congruent care- The importance of diversity in health care as well as its challenges and opportunities- Communication skills and culture, and communicating between cultures about health and disease- Definition of cultural care, cultural competence- Prerequisites for cultural competence- The importance of cultural competence among nursing students and educators- Integration of cultural care into the steps of nursing process (assessment, nursing diagnoses, implementation of interventions, and evaluation)Assessment: LEARN model, BELIEF model, 4 c model and documentation of clients’ health beliefs/model of their illness and health- Cultural care and linguistic services standards- Identification of healing traditions and beliefs of clients at the workplace and education-Models of cultural care and cultural competence-Organizational cultural competence- Comparing and applying models of effective cultural care:Leininger’s cultural care model-Giger and Davidhizar’s evaluation model-Purnell’s model of cultural competence- Campinha – Bacote’s model of cultural competence in providing health care- Orlandi’s model-Patterns for health education programsThe Cultural Assessment FrameworkAirhihenbuwa’ The PEN-3 cultural model- Practices related to cultural competencies in different environments- Organizational cultural competence and methods of creating cultural competence in the organization and its barriers- Strategies and barriers to organizational competency (clinical, organizational and structural)- Workforce with cultural competence- Case reports and examples-Barriers, outcomes and cultural competence-Providing cultural care to immigrants- Bio-physiological determinants of health, and illness of minority groups- Barriers to effective cultural care, such as diagnostic inaccuracies, unintentional patient exploitation, racial and ethnic inequalities and disparities, group communication difficulties- Inequalities in health and socio-economic status- Equality of health, social justice, health literacy-Positive health outcomes related to cultural competence and cultural care- Cultural competence in providing services to immigrants-Immigration status and conditions and cultural diversity in immigrants- Complementary medicine and common diseases among immigrants- Process of acculturation in immigrants- Patterns of cultural acculturation: cultural assimilation, separation, integration, marginalization- Culturally congruent care for immigrants- Strategies for health education programs with cultural competence for immigrant clients- Summary and conclusions