Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention to increase general cultural competence of first-year nursing students. Design: This was a quasi-experimental study that used a convenience sample with an experimental group and a control group and pre- and posttesting. The sample comprised 146 first-year nursing students enrolled in the Introduction to Nursing course divided into an intervention group (n = 58) of students from one school and a control group (n = 88) including students from two schools. The intervention group received a 2-hour faculty lecture on cultural competence, and students prepared and delivered a student group presentation about a cultural group in Israel, basing the presentation on Campinha-Bacote's five constructs. A demographic data instrument and Campinha-Bacote's Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professional–Revised.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 87-94 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Transcultural Nursing |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- IAPCC-R
- Israel
- cultural competence
- culture
- nursing education
- nursing students