Abstract
BackgroundCulture serves as an adhesive to bind the lives of people. There are no objective, useful tools to assess cultural competence and practice. In this study, we evaluated whether the cultural competence of nurses was strengthened through the Cultural Competence Cultivation Programme.MethodsA quasi-experimental research design was used to evaluate nurses working at a medical centre in Taiwan. They were randomly allocated into an experimental group (n = 47), which received the Cultural Competence Cultivation Programme, or a control group (n = 50), which did not receive the educational programme. After the intervention, learning efficacy of the participants was assessed using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). The research data were statistically analysed on SPSS.ResultsThe average score of the experimental group was significantly higher in the ‘communication ability and skill’ category. Furthermore, OSCE scores and Standardised Patient Survey assessment and total scores were significantly and positively correlated.ConclusionThe findings of this study can serve as a reference for designing future clinical education programmes.
Highlights
Culture serves as an adhesive to bind the lives of people
The results indicated that the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) helps medical professionals foster skills necessary to communicate with patients in challenging situations
This study evaluated whether the cultural competence of nurses was strengthened through the Cultural Competence Cultivation Programme
Summary
Culture serves as an adhesive to bind the lives of people. We evaluated whether the cultural competence of nurses was strengthened through the Cultural Competence Cultivation Programme. Lee et al BMC Nursing (2020) 19:114 the amount of work experience and employment status will exert a direct impact on self-efficacy for cultural competence [13]. Jeffreys developed an educational programme involving different teaching strategies, such as narration, literature review and discussion, film appreciation, and roleplaying, to help clinical nurses learn cross-cultural nursing concepts and assess their cultural competence [15]. Several studies have suggested considering course evaluation, performance analysis, and continuous course adjustment for designing an educational course that helps cultivate the cultural competence of nurses and for accumulating empirical data on cultural competence [4, 16]
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