NURS 310 - Cultural Diversity in Healthcare

Credits: 3

Description
This course will prepare the RN to BSN student with the foundation to provide culturally congruent care. Students will learn how cultural beliefs, values, and practices can impact the delivery of care within the community. Students will reflect on how a multi-cultural community can pose challenges in the delivery of holistic care and identify ways to reduce barriers to care.

Student Learning Outcomes

Integrate the general, professional, and theoretical care beliefs, expressions, patterns, and practices of selected diverse cultural groups predominately encountered in healthcare settings.
Demonstrate cultural competence necessary for professional nursing practice.
Articulate the influences and outcomes of globalization on the ongoing evolution practice of transcultural nursing.
Develop communication strategies for the provision of culturally congruent/culturally competent care.
Use evidence-based research to inform the delivery of culturally congruent/culturally competent care.
Evaluate health care policy that impacts the integration of culturally congruent/culturally competent nursing/healthcare.
Optimize critical thinking skills in a globalization context.

Prerequisite: NURS 309 and NURS 312 and NURS 338 all with a grade of C or better