Sanner Susan, Baldwin Dee, Cannella Kathleen A S, Charles Jennell, Parker Lillian
Clayton State University, 2777 Priscilla Way, Morrow, GA, USA.
J Cult Divers. 2010 Summer;17(2):56-61.
As the population demographics for the United States (U.S.) shift towards increasing diversity, it is essential that nurses provide culturally competent care. Cultural sensitivity has been identified as a major curricular element in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN) The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Thus it is imperative that nursing faculty use effective strategies to help nursing students develop cultural sensitivity and competence. Educational workshops focusing on cultural diversity are usually designed to increase people's cultural sensitivity. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a cultural diversity forum on nursing students' cultural sensitivity as measured by their openness to diversity. A convenience sample of students was recruited from a public university in the southeastern United States. The workshop was designed as a forum that combined a keynote presentation, shared meal, and a small group interactional activity. Cultural sensitivity was measured using the Openness to Diversity/Challenge Scale (ODCS), and was administered to students before and after the forum. A convenience sample of 47 students agreed to participate and completed both the pretest and posttest. Following the workshop, the students had more cultural sensitivity as measured by their scores on the ODCS (Wilcoxin Signed-Rank test z= -3.286, p = 0.001). The findings suggested that an educational format like the cultural diversity forum can promote students' cultural sensitivity. Further research needs to continue to focus on the effectiveness of strategies to increase the cultural sensitivity of baccalaureate nursing students.
随着美国人口结构日益多元化，护士提供具有文化胜任力的护理至关重要。文化敏感性已被美国护理学院协会（AACN）的《专业护理实践学士学位教育 essentials》确定为主要课程要素。因此，护理教师必须采用有效的策略来帮助护生培养文化敏感性和文化胜任力。聚焦文化多样性的教育工作坊通常旨在提高人们的文化敏感性。本研究的目的是评估文化多样性论坛对护生文化敏感性的有效性，该有效性通过护生对多样性的开放程度来衡量。从美国东南部一所公立大学招募了一个便利样本的学生。该工作坊被设计成一个论坛，结合了主题演讲、共享餐食和小组互动活动。使用多样性开放度/挑战量表（ODCS）测量文化敏感性，并在论坛前后对学生进行施测。47名学生的便利样本同意参与并完成了前测和后测。工作坊结束后，通过学生在ODCS上的得分测量发现，他们具有了更高的文化敏感性（Wilcoxin符号秩检验z = -3.286，p = 0.001）。研究结果表明，像文化多样性论坛这样的教育形式可以提高学生的文化敏感性。进一步的研究需要继续关注提高本科护生文化敏感性策略的有效性。
