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- Title
Evaluating the Impact of a North American Nursing Exchange Program on Student Cultural Awareness.
- Authors
Kuehn, Alice F.; Chircop, Andrea; Downe-Wambold, Barbara; Sheppard-LeMoine, Debbie; Wittstock, Lucille; Herbert, Rosemary; Torres, Raquel A. Benavides; Murnaghan, Donna; Critchley, Kim
- Abstract
As the demand for cultural awareness in the provision of nursing care continues to increase, nursing programs must develop creative and effective teaching strategies and curricula to address this need. The evaluation of a five year, funded, North American nursing exchange project developed and implemented by six partner universities in Canada, Mexico and the United States of America is described in this article. The project was designed to enable nursing students to increase cultural awareness, redefine their role relationships with nurses from the partner countries, and increase knowledge regarding the health care systems and role of the nurse in those countries. Findings provide evidence that teaching nursing through a prism of cultural awareness, using both a jointly taught online course and student and faculty exchanges across the three countries is an effective strategy to increase the level of cultural awareness in nursing students.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CANADA; MEXICO; NORTH America; EXCHANGE of persons programs; EXPERIENTIAL learning; INTERNET; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL care; NURSES; NURSING students; REFLECTION (Philosophy); STUDENT attitudes; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; CULTURAL awareness; DATA analysis; CULTURAL values; OCCUPATIONAL roles; PEER relations; THEMATIC analysis; PRE-tests &; post-tests; EDUCATIONAL outcomes; INTER-observer reliability; SCHOOL orientation
- Publication
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 2011, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1548-923X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2202/1548-923X.1919