Videoconferencing Expands Nursing Students’ Cultural Realm

Abstract

Nurse educators struggle to provide culturally diverse community health clinical placements that cultivate cultural awareness, knowledge, and competence among baccalaureate nursing students. Public health nurses observe that many new nursing graduates lack the fundamental knowledge, skills, and affective behaviors necessary to work with culturally diverse populations. To address this, nursing faculty from two schools partnered to strategize, design, implement, and evaluate a community health assessment project using the instructional method of videoconferencing. The goal was to maximize students' exposure to and engagement with geographically and demographically dissimilar populations. Through videoconferencing, students from two distant schools were able to exchange and actively discuss their community health assessments. Videoconferencing gave students the opportunity to exchange community assessments and perceptions augmented by technology and guided through faculty networking. This article describes a piloted teaching strategy by which students performed and exchanged their community health assessments from diverse populations to enhance their cultural awareness.

Los estudiantes de Grado en Enfermería y su compromiso con los estudios

“…El estilo de aprendizaje se piensa que puede tener influencia en el compromiso de los estudiantes con sus estudios, de forma que aquellos métodos docentes que hacen que el estudiante busque activamente el conocimiento son proclives a conseguir un estudiante con mayor compromiso que aquellos otros estilos más tradicionales en que los estudiantes tienen un papel más pasivo (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19) .…”

Gaining a global perspective on public health through an international student nurse collaboration

“…In this project, students' dialogue related to indigenous populations, poverty, communicable disease and global health threats may reinforce learning related to public health nursing principles including the need for respect and appreciation for other cultures. This knowledge addresses the concerns raised by Pirkey et al, [20] and also encompasses the QUAD Council competencies for public health nurses. [21] The American Nurses Association Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing [22] and the cultural competency behaviors identified by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.…”

“…Pirkey, Levey, Newberry, Guthman and Hansen [20] identified that public health nurses are concerned about new graduate nurses' competence for working with diverse populations. The students' interchanges using video conferencing provided an ideal context to consolidate core public health concepts taught in their respective classes.…”

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“…28,29 However, no previous Japanese study clarifies the educational methods of health counselling considered within its own culture The conspicuous features of Japanese culturally appropriate health counselling methods were clarified in this study so as to make future use of these methods more efficient. This aim of public health nursing must influence health counselling methods; therefore, the PHNs must consider values or relationships common to community residents.…”