Transcultural Nursing & Compassion

Course Description

Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care helps nursing students transform their thinking so they develop into culturally competent nurses capable of safe, thoughtful, and ethical care of individuals, families, groups, and communities of diverse backgrounds. Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care takes a life span approach to describe cultural variations in lifestyle, habits, beliefs, and life process; and in doing so, provides a framework that will improve health and nursing care to minority, underrepresented, disenfranchised, and marginalized populations.

The aim of this course is to help students to acquiring theoretical and clinical knowledge, skills, and adopting appropriate attitudes to provide personalized care make it more imperative for health science students to be made aware of quality and culturally competent compassion care.

Intercultural nursing care will be analyzed within a framework in which students cultivate critical thinking and develop decision-making skills in clinical practice.