Hwey-Fang Liang
Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Title: Equipping nursing students for cultural care
Biography
Biography: Hwey-Fang Liang
Abstract
Insufficient cultural care perception may obstruct student nurses to provide care for patients and families in clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to establish a culture care embedded in a nursing course and to explore its effectiveness as related to student nurses’ culture care perception. This study employed a one-group pre- and post-quasi-experimental research design and used proposed sampling to recruit nursing students in a university. A total of 150 nursing students took an 18-week, totally 36 hours, cultural care competence embedded in a Child and Adolescent Nursing course, which including variety teaching strategies including lectures, team based learning (TBL) and workshop discussions. Cultural care perception questionnaires with a 5-point Likert-type scale administered before and after the course to evaluate the effectiveness of the culture care perception. Results showed that the average post-course score (28.13±3.11) was significantly higher than the pre-course score (24.22±2.18) in cultural care knowledge, the average post-course score (26.05±2.36) was significantly higher than the pre-course score (24.14±3.12) in cultural care action, and the average post-course score (86.14±6.27) was significantly higher than the pre-course score (80.36±3.12) in cultural care perception. There was significant improvement noted after the intervention (p<0.01). Results of the study showed that a thorough nursing education program improve nursing students’ culture care knowledge, action, and perception. The research outcomes support the value of cultural care competence embedded in the nursing course programs, incorporating a multidisciplinary teaching strategies to help nursing students perceive adequate culture care for patients in clinical practice.