Increasing undergraduate nursing students' cultural competence: an evaluation study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cultural competence has become increasingly important for Chinese health professionals because of internationalization and the opening up of China to overseas visitors and business as well as a growing awareness of the needs of minority groups within China. This study aimed to evaluate a workshop designed to improve cultural competence among Chinese undergraduate nursing students.

Methods

A one-group pretest and posttest design was applied. The intervention was a one-day workshop based on transformative learning theory using a variety of teaching strategies. Forty undergraduate nursing students from a university in Wuhan, China selected by convenient sampling received the intervention. Data were collected before the intervention (T1), immediately after the interve

SUBMITTER: Liu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5836416 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature