Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Transcultural Nursing

Transcultural Nursing
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9823
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First semester
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Module MINORS (Choose one minor)
International Nursing
Main language of instruction: English

Other languages of instruction: Spanish,

Teaching staff


Via mail:

Blanca Goñi   bgoni@uic.es

Xusa Serra     Xserra@uic.es

Introduction

Within the International Nursing specialization the subject of Transcultural Nursing will provide both the theoretical content of the Transcultural nursing and its practical application. It aims to train students to meet and work with people from different cultures. Classes will be mainly English.

Pre-course requirements

  • Not required
The Department of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has agreed that it is compulsory for all students taking a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, when participating in online classes, to turn on their camera and remain visible to lecturers and professors at all times

If there are students in self-isolation due to the COVID-19 health and safety measures, who cannot physically attend class at the University like their peers, teaching staff will carry out online teaching during this isolation period only so that the student(s) in question can attend their classes online. The rest of the students will have to attend their classes in person in the classroom.

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Objectives

Transcultural nursing:

  1. Understand the concept of "Transcultural Nurse" based on Madeleine Leininger's model (to offer a treatment based on the patient's culture and beliefs about health and illness)
  2. Understand and explore the concept of "culture" and acculturation processes.
  3. Know what differentiates the perception of health and illness in different cultures.
  4. Recognize cultural values, beliefs and practices of people in their cultural context.
  5. Nursing care on the cultural diversity (transcultural care).
  6. Intercultural effective communication.

Mourning and death in different cultural environments

  1. Ensure the emotional health of people in regular contact with situations of loss.
  2. Detect own difficulties facing death and pain.
  3. Humanize the dimension of "caring" and give meaning to life time.
  4. Discover the creative support in mourning, in adults and children.
  5. Prevent or detect a complicated mourning. Thanatology knowledge and the relationship between the different ways of dying with the grieving process. 

Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • 11. E - Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and partners and promote health education.
  • 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

  • Getting a "Cultural Competence" in nursing practice through the acquisition of anthropological knowledge and communication skills.
  • Ability to understand, accept and respect people within their social and cultural context.
  • Ability to analyse new ways to understand and employ the health practices and care.
  • Achieve effective transcultural oral and written communication with patients, families, social groups and colleagues.
  • Ability to propose solutions to intercultural conflicts that arise in the workplace. 

Syllabus

1- Transcultural Nursing (Professor: Blanca Goñi)

Madeleine Leininger's model: the concept of health and illness, nursing care in this model. (Professor: Pilar Fuster)

  • Concept of Culture. 
  • The concepts that differentiate the perception of health and illness in every culture. 
  • Decision-making within the different cultural values. 
  • Communication with different social groups, families ... (Role Playing, videos ...) 
  • Classroom activities: nursing care plans within cultural diversity
  • Classroom group activities: Practical cases resolution (case method)

2- Death and Mourning in different cultural environments (Professor: Xusa Serra- Lesson in Catalan)

  • Anthropological knowledge. Ways of living losses, death and rituals in different cultures.
  • How do we live illness, mourning and death nowadays. Stages of the person who is preparing to die. Creative support in sickness and death. Dignified death. Vital testament. Death at home or in the hospital. Ways to die and how they affect the families process of grieving. 
  • Children, death and mourning. Healthy Grieving process. Elements that facilitate or complicate the process. Complicated mourning. Risk factors and people.


  1. http://vimeo.com/5317622

Teaching and learning activities

In person



  • Theoretical lessons: 35% of the hours (approximately).
  • Individual work: reading, homework and class portfolio.
  • Group work: Case method

For students enrolled in English for Nursing 1 (09826), International Cooperation and Health (09824) and Transcultural Nursing (09823) there will be a common project to develop English communication competencies and integrate and apply the content of the three subjects.  This activity consists of a 20-minute oral presentation and written work which will be tutored and evaluated through the three subjects.  International Cooperation and Health and Transcultural Nursing will focus on the content, and English for Nursing will focus on the communication skills.

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person



Examination

The three teachers of the subject will jointly evaluate the student, taking into account the following criteria:

  • Final exam 30%
  • Glossary 10%
  • Assistance, class participation, activities 30% (compulsory attendance to 75% of the classes)
  • Transversal Task 30% 
In order to pass the course it is necessary to have a minimum grade of 5 in each of the evaluative activities, except in the activities of continuous evaluation and that the final grade with the sum of the different parts has a minimum grade of 5. 

First resit: The evaluation will consist on an exam or a project that will be specified (literature-resolution analysis of case...) using moodle, depending on the area of the first evaluation that was failed. (continuous-exam)

Honors will not be awarded in the first resit.

Honor Matrix Assignment Procedure (MH)

  1. The criterion for assigning Honorary Enrolments (MH) is based on the Excellent (9.0).
  2. The assignment is solely for the teacher and does not have to give it, even if the student has obtained a mark above 9.0.
  3. In case the teacher decides to award MH, he will not take into account the numerical mark and the highest, but will evaluate other factors. The HM might not match the highest numeric score.

Procedure for Non-presented Assignment (NP)

  1. To register an NP in the student's file, it must not have been submitted to any of the evaluation tests throughout the assignment.
  2. If a student has submitted to one of the evaluation tests, the corresponding percentages in the teaching guide will be applied, with a 0 in those not presented.

Procedure for plagiarism or academic fraud

Any assignment or activity (including exams) in which plagiarism, falsification or academic fraud is detected, will result in a failure of the activity and an academic sanction that will entail from the loss of enrolment rights in this subject, to the opening of a file process.

Bibliography and resources

  • Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory. Madeleine M. Leininger,Marilyn R. McFarland
  • Transcultural Nursing. Concepts, theories, research & practice. Madeleine Leininger-M.R.McFarland

Teaching and learning material


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