Effectiveness Of Cultural Immersion And Culture Classes...

Jerry Barton Jr Dr. Jones NSG 6645 Family and Cultural Theory in Advanced Practice 8 June 2015 Effectiveness of Cultural Immersion and Culture Classes for Enhancing Nursing Students’ Transcultural Self-Efficacy Summary In the article, Effectiveness of Cultural Immersion and Culture Classes for Enhancing Nursing Students’ Transcultural Self-Efficacy, a quasi-experimental research design is performed as nursing students run pretest and posttest studies. The study assesses students’ self-efficacy while dealing with patients from various cultures. Cultural competence in the medical profession is important and is encouraged by the Joint Commission to ensure students in the medical field are taught culture competency as well as health promotion. This is imperative to learn so that nurses implement fair treatment regardless of patients’ cultural differences. As such, according to Larsen and Reif (2011), â€Å"Culturally competent care has been defined as the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for providing quality care to diverse populations† (p. 350). Therefore, education is a key factor for implementation, guaranteeing health providers deliver quality cultural competent care. Also, the article notes that twenty-one out of twenty-five studies reveal that health care providers develop better attitudes with cultural competency training (p. 351). Furthermore, immersion experiences have also become standards in nursing curricula abroad. The particular immersion courses the