Park Hae Sook, Jang Hee Jung, Jeong Geum Hee
Department of Nursing, Dongyang University, Yeongju, Korea.
School of Nursing and Research Institute in Nursing Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.
J Educ Eval Health Prof. 2019;16:39. doi: 10.3352/jeehp.2019.16.39. Epub 2019 Dec 27.
With Korea's recent rapid change into a multicultural society, cultural competence is being emphasized as a core nursing competency. This study investigated the effects of a cultural nursing course that aimed to enhance the cultural competence of nursing students in Korea.
This was a single-group pre- and post-comparison study. The subjects were 69 nursing students at Dongyang University who attended a cultural nursing course in 2015, of whom 62 students responded to the survey. The 13-week cultural nursing course was held for 2 hours a week. The methods of the course included small group activities, discussions and presentations, experiential learning, reflective activities, and lectures. Nursing students' cultural competence was measured pre- and post-course with the Cultural Competence Scale for Korean Nurses, which contains 33 items scored on a 7-point Likert scale.
After completing the cultural nursing course, students' total cultural competence scores increased, as did their scores in each category (cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural sensitivity, and cultural skills) (P<0.001). There was no significant difference in cultural competence by gender (P<0.001).
This cultural nursing course was found to be effective in enhancing the cultural competence of nursing students. Therefore, the educational program developed in this study can be extended to other university-level nursing programs in Korea.
随着韩国近期迅速转变为多元文化社会，文化能力作为一项核心护理能力正受到重视。本研究调查了一门旨在提高韩国护理专业学生文化能力的文化护理课程的效果。
这是一项单组前后比较研究。研究对象为2015年在东阳大学参加文化护理课程的69名护理专业学生，其中62名学生参与了调查。为期13周的文化护理课程每周授课2小时。课程方法包括小组活动、讨论与展示、体验式学习、反思活动及讲座。采用韩国护士文化能力量表在课程前后对护理专业学生的文化能力进行测量，该量表包含33个项目，采用7点李克特量表计分。
完成文化护理课程后，学生的文化能力总分及各维度（文化意识、文化知识、文化敏感性和文化技能）得分均有所提高（P<0.001）。文化能力在性别上无显著差异（P<0.001）。
发现该文化护理课程在提高护理专业学生文化能力方面有效。因此，本研究开发的教育项目可推广至韩国其他大学层次的护理项目。
