BSc in General Nursing / Бакалавр в Области Общего Ухода за Больными
Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title
TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
Course Unit Code
NUR406.1
Course Unit Details
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning Outcomes of the course unit
By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
Explain the concepts and terminologies related to Transcultural Nursing, Cultural Self-Assessment, Religion, Racism, Ethnocentrism, Stereotypes and Cross-Cultural Communication.
Identify the impact of culture on health and healthcare.
Recognise the necessity and importance of patients’ spirituality and religiousness in the provision of culturally sensitive nursing care.
State the components of a Transcultural Healthcare Workforce.
Distinguish Health Traditions Paradigm and Models, Health Belief Systems and Types of Healing Systems.
Analyse Transcultural Nursing Care Theoretical Models.
Employ different approaches in the transcultural nursing care of pregnant women, children and adolescents, adults and older adults, people in pain and with mental illnesses, refugees and immigrants.
Apply Cultural Assessment.
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Prerequisites
NONE
Co-requisites
NONE
Recommended optional program components
NONE
Course Contents
Transcultural Nursing: History, Concepts, Terminologies and Care Models.
Assessment: Self- and Cultural.
Communication across cultures.
Health: Traditions, Paradigms, Models, Belief Systems and Types of Healing Systems.
Religion.
Life Cycle: Reproduction, Children, Adolescents, Adults and Older Adults.
Pain.
Mental Health.
Refugees and Immigrants.
Transcultural Healthcare Workforce.
Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks
M. Andrews, J. Royle, Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care. (5th ed.) Wolters Kluwer. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008
References
I. Papadopoulos, A. Kalokerinou-Anagnostopoulou,Ch. Kouta, Transcultural Nursing and Culturally Competence of Health Professionals. Paschalidis Medical Publication, 2011
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer-based presentations.
Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks.
