Transcultural and Global Health Nursing

Catalog description

This course provides a theoretical framework for the delivery of culturally competent nursing care. It will help nursing students transform their thinking so that they develop into culturally competent nurses who are capable of safe, thoughtful, and ethical care of individuals, families, groups, and communities of diverse backgrounds. The use of a life span approach provides a framework that will improve health and nursing care to minority, underrepresented, disenfranchised and marginalized populations. This course creates an interdisciplinary knowledge foundation reflecting the cultural changes in the clinical nursing environment. This course also includes the use of a multidisciplinary perspective to explore global issues affecting personal, community, and international health and development, global health nursing, the political, economic, and cultural processes of globalization, and their impact on population health and health care systems. It will also enhance understanding of the global dimensions of health and disease, various strategic health initiatives, and correlating health care interventions. Attention will be paid to a variety of topics including HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, infectious diseases, health in reproduction, social determinants of health, and more.