Kako Peninnah M, Klingbeil Carol G
About the Authors Peninnah M. Kako, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, APNP, is an associate professor and director, DNP Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Carol G. Klingbeil, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC, is a clinical assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing. The authors would like to acknowledge Augustine Peegd Wende Rouamba for her contributions to the research. For more information, contact Dr. Klingbeil at
Nurs Educ Perspect. 2019 Sep/Oct;40(5):278-282. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000561.
This qualitative descriptive study aimed to evaluate the role of a short-term interprofessional study abroad program in Kenya on beginning awareness of cultural humility.
Students in the health care professions, including nursing, must learn to work effectively with diverse patient populations and provide culturally safe care.
Course assignments of 21 students were thematically analyzed to discover how students applied concepts of cultural attunement to learn cultural humility while interacting with people in rural and urban Kenya.
Student narrations acknowledged all aspects of cultural attunement during the experience: the pain of oppression; acted with reverence; reported coming from a place of not knowing; engaged in acts of humility; engaged in mutuality; and reported attaining harmony, cooperation, and accord.
Findings suggest a short-term community-focused study abroad experience can be a valuable tool for beginning stages of becoming culturally humble and providing culturally safe health care.
本定性描述性研究旨在评估肯尼亚的一个短期跨专业海外学习项目在培养文化谦逊意识初期所起的作用。
包括护理在内的医疗保健专业的学生必须学会有效地与不同的患者群体合作，并提供具有文化安全性的护理。
对21名学生的课程作业进行主题分析，以了解学生在与肯尼亚农村和城市的人们互动时，是如何应用文化调适概念来学习文化谦逊的。
学生的叙述承认了体验过程中文化调适的各个方面：压迫带来的痛苦；怀着敬意行事；表示来自未知之地；践行谦逊之举；相互协作；并表示实现了和谐、合作与一致。
研究结果表明，以社区为重点的短期海外学习经历可能是在培养文化谦逊和提供具有文化安全性的医疗保健的初始阶段的一个有价值的工具。
