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Transcultural Care
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:12.01.2021 13:59:19
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LF_410 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Health Care | Target Audience: | Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilona Zariņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | RSU Liepāja Branch | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Liepāja, Riņķu iela 24/26, lf rsu[pnkts]lv, lfrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 63442118, +371 63442119, +371 63484632 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 11 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 22 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | |||||||||
| Objective: | |||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Biocultural perspective, culture, terms, religion, transcultural care theory. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Awareness of the differences. Culture shock. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Intercultural communication. Communication in the health care. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Space, needs of space in different cultures and health care. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Social organisation. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Time, understanding of time in different cultures, role of time in patient care. Environmental control. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Biological diversity. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Eating habits, their advantages and disadvantages in different cultures, role in health care. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Latvian minority groups, transcultural nursing. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Transcultural client/patient survey, observation: data collection, interpretation, formulation of nursing problems, justification. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Ethical aspects in transcultural care. Evidence based approach in transcultural care. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | After each lecture/class students receive independent work assignments. • Objectives: to learn the terminology in order to describe the importance of verbal and non-verbal communication; to define the concept of space and understand its importance; to describe social groups; adequately define the term "time", to understand the role of culture within the meaning of time and perception; to recognise different cultural public health practice types, recognise significant cultural factors that influence the behavior of the disease in relation to environmental control; to formulate biological differences in individuals among different racial groups, to explain how the susceptibility of individuals may vary among different racial groups. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Presentation of the client / patient situation description. The exam is evaluated with a mark in a 10-point system, where the lowest successful evaluation is 4 points. A score of 1 – 10 is given for each point, the average is drawn at the end. The following points are evaluated: 1. Have all tasks 1 to 10 been completed? 2. General Questions Section 1–10 3. Description 1–10 4. Reflection section 1–10 5. Presentation skills 1–10 6. Ability to answer questions 1–10 Student participation in lectures and classes – 15%; Classroom tests and homework – 35%; Presentation of the client / patient transcultural survey description at the end of the course – 50%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Oral) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Upon completion of the study course the students will be able to describe the observation model of transcultural care, aspects which are important in the care of patients and a nurse/midwife's role in it. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Upon completion of the study course the students will be able to assess data, get the information, analyse and formulate them, and to put forward and solve the problems of transcultural care. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Upon completion of the study course the students develop competence: to describe the situation of a patient and formulate care problems, taking into account cross-cultural health care context, integrating and using appropriate skills, knowledge and attitudes for the situation. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kolčanovs B., Zankovska-Odiņa, Zālītis K. (2010) Atšķirīgs klients daudzveidīgā Latvijā, Mācību līdzeklis to iestāžu darbiniekiem, kuri sniedz pakalpojumus trešo valstu valstspiederīgajiem, Latvijas Cilvēktiesību Centrs | ||||||||
| 2 | Starpkultūru komunikācija (2009) Apmācību kursa rokasgrāmata (2009) izstr. Zaķe D., Ose L., Lazda-Mazula I., Viša K., Sabiedrības integrācijas fonds | ||||||||
| 3 | Starpkultūru komunikācija, daudzveidība un tolerance (2011) Mācību metodiskais materiāls, Izglītības attīstības centrs, Rīga | ||||||||
| 4 | Andrews M.M., Boyle J.S. (2008) Transcultural concepts in nursing care, 5th ed., Philadelphia PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | ||||||||
| 5 | Transcultural Europe: cultural police in a changing Europe (2006) edited by U.H. Meinhof and A. Triandafyllidou, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Pallgrive Macmillan | ||||||||
| 6 | Understanding_Transcultural_Nursing https://journals.lww.com/nursing/Fulltext/2005/01001/UNDERS… | ||||||||
| 7 | Sharon C. Murphy, Mapping the literature of transcultural nursing. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1463039/ | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Hemming E.(2007)An Introduction to Intercultural Communication. Available from: https://www.scribd.com/doc/253386490/Introduction-to-Interc… | ||||||||
| 2 | Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/tcn | ||||||||
| 3 | P. Sagar (2012) Transcultural Nursing Theory and Models, Spriger Publ.comp. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.currentnursing.com | ||||||||
| 2 | www.culturediversity.com | ||||||||
| 3 | European Trancultural Nursing Association. Available from: https://https://europeantransculturalnurses.eu/ | ||||||||
