Transcultural Nursing

General

• Code: 278-190410
• Semester: 4th
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Course type: Special Background
• Teaching and exams language: Greek
• Teaching Methods (Hours/Week): Theory (2)
• ECTS Units: 2
• Course homepage: https://moodle.teithe.gr/course/index.php?categoryid=196
• Instructors: Theofanidis Dimitrios, Kafkia Theodora

Course Contents

• History – Objectives, responsibilities – Definitions of intercultural nursing.
• The concepts of civilization, culture, health and illness.
• Theory and models of intercultural nursing and health.
• Culture, experience and cultural sensitivity of health professionals.
• Factors influencing the delivery of care in different cultures nationally and globally.
• The transcultural/intercultural dimension of quality of care.
• The health of migrants, the provision of health and welfare services.
• Transcultural/Intercultural knowledge, sensitivity and competence in child care.
• Transcultural/Intercultural mental health nursing.
• Human rights, guaranteeing and protecting the right to health.
• Ethical dilemmas and future trends in school nursing.

Educational Goals

The aim of the module is to help students understand the concept of “Transcultural/Intercultural Nursing” as a science and to develop methods of reaching people through intercultural care. Students will also develop skills in order to gain knowledge specific to local ethnic minorities and formulate perceptions towards the application of Basic Nursing Care to different cultural groups.

Upon successful completion of the theoretical module, students will be able to apply skills that can be used in the process of gathering information for the education of the target population, as well as in the management and treatment of acute and chronic health problems in the transcultural/intercultural environment. They will also be able to plan care using the nursing process method in order to understand the concept and content of transcultural/intercultural nursing and to realize the role of the nurse. In addition, they will be in a position to analyze nursing care provided in the transcultural/ intercultural environment in the context of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention and to assess the hygiene and safety of the physical and social transcultural/intercultural environment. In addition, they will be familiar with the concepts of culture, health, illness and their interaction in different cultures and will be knowledgeable to report on cultural factors related to mental illness, interventions in transcultural/intercultural nursing and factors affecting the provision of care to different population groups. Finally, they will be able to identify the parameters of quality of transcultural/intercultural care in age groups.

General Skills

• Adapting to new situations.
• Decision-making.
• Working independently.
• Team work.
• Respect for difference and multiculturalism.
• Criticism and self-criticism.
• Working in an interdisciplinary environment.
• Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.

Teaching Methods

• Face to face.

Use of ICT means

• Powerpoint presentations.
• Contact with students by e-mail.
• Support of the learning process through the electronic platform moodle.

Teaching Organization

Students Evaluation

• Written exams.