Læringsutbytte

After successfully completing the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence.

Knowledge

The candidate can/has:

• Clarify global health challenges
• Identify the impact of governmental systems on people’s health
• Knowledge about theories and models in nursing that encourage culturally congruent nursing care
• Identify how principles of empowerment and resilience may contribute to culturally congruent nursing care
• Knowledge about the contributions of nurses to health promotion from an international perspective.

Skills

The candidate can:

• Communicate professional nursing issues in English
• Search for information related to health care and challenges in global health through publicly available Internet sources
• Embrace awareness of cross-cultural issues in nursing.

General competence

The candidate can:

• Identify global professional issues in nursing
• Appreciate an international approach to nursing
• Include the ICN guidelines in professional discussions.

Innhold

Innhold

Global health and the nursing profession

• Human rights and health challenges
• Millennium Development Goals (UN millennium goals)
• Major global health challenges
• Global health variations
• Challenges in low and high income countries
• Epidemiology/demographic surveillance sites
• Migration and health challenges
• Code of conduct for nurses – the ICN guidelines for nurses
• Nursing and nurses in international health care
• Forms of governmental legislation and government forms
• Contextual challenges

Nursing performance in a multicultural context

• Patients from different cultural backgrounds
• Majority and minority perspectives
• Basic human needs
• Human resources, resilience, and empowerment
• Nursing models and theories in a multicultural society
• Transcultural nursing – research and performance
• Cultural competence in nursing
• Assessment tools and intervention strategies
• Contexts for patients
• Contexts for nurses
• Health and life conditions
• The relationship between patient and nurse
• Cultural awareness
• Cross cultural communication
• Ethical issues

Arbeids- og læringsformer

Learning methods include subject literature and textbooks, digital studies, lectures, group work, and the Clinical Skills Centre.

This course may be included in professional education programs for incoming and outgoing exchange students.

Vurderingsformer

Individual essay marked on a pass/fail basis.

Course requirements:

The requirements are described in the course plan.

Det tas forbehold om mindre justeringer i planen.