Course: Transcultural Nursing

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Course title Transcultural Nursing
Course code OSE/VOK23
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Pivovarová Simona, Mgr.
  • Machálková Lenka, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Main topics: -The concept of transcultural, multicultural nursing -The concept of culture, ethnicity, society, common and different characteristics. -Cultural and ethnic concepts of health, disease, death, rituals, specifics. -Multicultural society in the Czech Republic, migration. -Intercultural communication, barriers, specifics, alternative possibilities of communication. -Etnocentrism and its consequences in nursing care for individuals. -Nursing assessment - KM Leininger, Davidhizar.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
Students are taught selected terminology relevant to transcultural nursing - ethnicity, culture, spirituality, faith, religion - and they are presented with basic characteristics of selected ethnic, cultural and religious groups. They are provided with the initial knowledge necessary for their ability to adapt the nursing process in clients while respecting their ethnic, cultural and spiritual background.
On completion of the course, students are expected: to be able to correctly grasp the concepts of ethnicity, culture, spirituality, belief, religion; to know the basic characteristics of selected ethnic, cultural, and religious groups; and be able to adapt the nursing process for it to meet the clients' specific ethnic, cultural and spiritual needs.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Dialog, Seminar Work

Attendance in seminars and practicals, seminar paper.
Recommended literature
  • Supplement vybraných kapitol vo vedných odboroch sociálna práca a ošetrovateľstvo VI.. Příbram: Ústav sv. Jana Nepomuka Neumanna, 2018.
  • AKINTAYO, T., HÄMÄLÄINEN, J., RISSANEN, S. (2014). Multiculturalism in social agencies for the aged.
  • ANDREWS, Margaret M., Joyceen S. BOYLE a John W. COLLINS. (2020). Transcultural concepts in nursing care. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
  • Andrews, M.M., Boyle, J.S. (2008). Transcultural concepts in nursing care: exercises, stories, and synthetic cultures. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams.
  • Burnard, P., Gill, P. (2009). Culture, communication, and nursing: exercises, stories, and synthetic cultures. New York: Pearson Education.
  • ETNA. (2019). ETNA - European Transcultural Nursing Association: 6th International ETNA Conference 2019 : June 19th-21st 2019, České Budějovice, Czech Republic : social program : June 19th-22nd 2019, Czech Republic : program & abstracts.. České Budějovice.
  • Giger, J. N., & Davidhizar, R. E. (2008). Transcultural nursing: assessment and intervention. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Mosby.
  • GIGER, Joyce Newman a LINDA HADDAD. (2020). Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention. Elsevier.
  • PAVLAKIS, A., LEONDIOU, I. (2014). Multicultural nursing education in a multicultural society. International Journal of Caring Sciences.
  • Tóthová, V. a kol. (2012). Kulturně kompetentní péče u vybraných minoritních skupin. Praha: Triton.
  • Vrublová, Y. (2011). Kultura a zdravotní péče. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences Study plan (Version): General Nursing (2020) Category: Health service 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter