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A virtual training program for improving cultural competence among academic nurse educators
BACKGROUND: Everyday, nursing students interact with culturally diverse clients. Nursing education recognizes that cultural competence is a necessary outcome of nursing programs. Nurse educators expect all nursing students to provide culturally congruent care to multicultural clients. Therefore, nur...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10276432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37328780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04414-x |
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author | Rahimi, Monireh Khodabandeh Shahraki, Sedigheh Fatehi, Farhad Farokhzadian, Jamileh |
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description | BACKGROUND: Everyday, nursing students interact with culturally diverse clients. Nursing education recognizes that cultural competence is a necessary outcome of nursing programs. Nurse educators expect all nursing students to provide culturally congruent care to multicultural clients. Therefore, nurse educators must be culturally competent in order to prepare culturally competent nursing students for clinical practice. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of virtual training program on the cultural competence of academic nurse educators. METHODS: This randomized controlled study included nurse educators working in six nursing schools affiliated with medical universities of Kerman province in southeastern Iran. Sixty-nine nurse educators were randomly assigned to the intervention (n = 35) and control (n = 34) groups. The training program consisted of three 2-hour sessions for a month. Cultural Diversity Questionnaire for Nurse Educators Revised (CDQNE-R) was used to evaluate the cultural competence of educators before and one month after the virtual training program. RESULTS: Both the intervention (3.29 ± 0.58) and control (3.24 ± 0.58) groups demonstrated a similar level of cultural competence before the training program (t = 0.05, p = 0.95). After the training, the intervention group showed a significant increase in cultural competence (3.80 ± 0.7) compared to the control group (3.23 ± 0.67). This improvement resulted in culturally competent participants becoming culturally proficient, as evidenced by a large effect size (t = -4.76, p = 0.001). CONCLUSION: The virtual training program had a positive impact on the cultural competence of nurse educators. Given the importance of cultural competence in nursing education, continuing education programs that focus on strengthening the cultural competence of nurse educators should be prioritized. The experiences gained from implementing virtual training programs can serve as a valuable resource for nurse educators seeking to enhance their cultural competence. |
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spelling | pubmed-102764322023-06-18 A virtual training program for improving cultural competence among academic nurse educators Rahimi, Monireh Khodabandeh Shahraki, Sedigheh Fatehi, Farhad Farokhzadian, Jamileh BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: Everyday, nursing students interact with culturally diverse clients. Nursing education recognizes that cultural competence is a necessary outcome of nursing programs. Nurse educators expect all nursing students to provide culturally congruent care to multicultural clients. Therefore, nurse educators must be culturally competent in order to prepare culturally competent nursing students for clinical practice. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of virtual training program on the cultural competence of academic nurse educators. METHODS: This randomized controlled study included nurse educators working in six nursing schools affiliated with medical universities of Kerman province in southeastern Iran. Sixty-nine nurse educators were randomly assigned to the intervention (n = 35) and control (n = 34) groups. The training program consisted of three 2-hour sessions for a month. Cultural Diversity Questionnaire for Nurse Educators Revised (CDQNE-R) was used to evaluate the cultural competence of educators before and one month after the virtual training program. RESULTS: Both the intervention (3.29 ± 0.58) and control (3.24 ± 0.58) groups demonstrated a similar level of cultural competence before the training program (t = 0.05, p = 0.95). After the training, the intervention group showed a significant increase in cultural competence (3.80 ± 0.7) compared to the control group (3.23 ± 0.67). This improvement resulted in culturally competent participants becoming culturally proficient, as evidenced by a large effect size (t = -4.76, p = 0.001). CONCLUSION: The virtual training program had a positive impact on the cultural competence of nurse educators. Given the importance of cultural competence in nursing education, continuing education programs that focus on strengthening the cultural competence of nurse educators should be prioritized. The experiences gained from implementing virtual training programs can serve as a valuable resource for nurse educators seeking to enhance their cultural competence. BioMed Central 2023-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10276432/ /pubmed/37328780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04414-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Rahimi, Monireh Khodabandeh Shahraki, Sedigheh Fatehi, Farhad Farokhzadian, Jamileh A virtual training program for improving cultural competence among academic nurse educators |
title | A virtual training program for improving cultural competence among academic nurse educators |
title_full | A virtual training program for improving cultural competence among academic nurse educators |
title_fullStr | A virtual training program for improving cultural competence among academic nurse educators |
title_full_unstemmed | A virtual training program for improving cultural competence among academic nurse educators |
title_short | A virtual training program for improving cultural competence among academic nurse educators |
title_sort | virtual training program for improving cultural competence among academic nurse educators |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10276432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37328780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04414-x |
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