NRSE 4570 - Diversity

• Students will be able to describe techniques to enhance transcultural communication between health care providers.
• Students will be able to advocate for high quality and safe patient care when caring for culturally diverse patients/clients.
• Students will be able to effectively describe how to prioritize actions within the nursing process and implementation of culturally appropriate plans of care.
• Students will be able to put into practice the fundamental principles that influence transcultural interaction and communication.
• Students will be able to demonstrate communication skills necessary for establishing a therapeutic relationship with culturally diverse patients/clients.
• Students will be able to recognize their own potential for bias and stereotyping in order to identify their attitudes, biases, and stereotypes affect clinical encounters, clinical decision making and quality of care.
• Students will be able to analyze how culture supports and challenges health beliefs, practices, and behaviors.
• Students will be able to assess the influence of values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors.
• Students will be able to describe and explain how health inequities affect health outcomes of the individual, family, and population.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others’ worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions of other cultures and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others while suspending judgment in valuing his / her interactions with culturally different others.