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

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

SKILS

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

GENERAL COMPETENCE

• 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 Government Law and government forms
• Context challenges

- Nursing performance in a multicultural context

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

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 Government Law and government forms
• Context challenges

- Nursing performance in a multicultural context

• Patients with different cultural backgrounds Majority and minority perspectives
• Human basic needs
• Human resources – resilience – empowerment
• Nurses Models and theories in nursing in a multicultural society Transcultural nursing – research and performance
• Cultural competence in nursing
• Assessment tools and intervention strategies
• Context 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

Subject literature and textbooks, digital studies, lectures, group work and Clinical Skills Centre.

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

Vurderingsformer

Individual essay. Pass/fail.

Course requirements:

The requirements are described in the course plan.

Det tas forbehold om mindre justeringer i planen.