Developing Multicultural Sensitivity (LPN/LVN Version)

Price (includes one year of access and CE):  US$16 Course Code: 7SENNF-PRV-09-libmcl CE: 3.00 Hours. Post Test Score Required for Successful Completion: 80%

Course Overview:

Clients' values and belief systems affect their willingness to accept care and education offered by health care providers. Values and beliefs are often culturally determined. This course prepares learners to deliver culturally sensitive nursing care. This cultual sensitivity embodies respect for others and their cultures; awareness of culturally determined behaviors and beliefs; a willingness to modify care; and client advocacy when necessary. The program examines four major cultural groups within the United States -- Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and African Americans -- with regard to beliefs about health and illness; medical diagnoses common to the culture; folk illnesses found within the culture; family relationships; verbal and non-verbal communication patterns, including space and time orientation; dietary practices; attitudes and behaviors associated with birth and death; and folk health practices. Learner understanding of these concepts in evaluated in simulated client situations throughout the course.

Course Objectives:

At the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

1. describe the following aspects of culture for each of the cultures addressed:
   • beliefs about health and illness
   • medical diagnoses common to the culture
   • folk illnesses found within the culture
   • family relationships
   • verbal and nonverbal communication patterns, including space and time orientation
   • dietary practices
   • attitudes and behaviors associated with birth and death
   • folk health practices
2. demonstrate cultural sensitivity in the choices made related to use of the nursing process in selected situations included in this program.

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HealthSoft, Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

It has been assigned code 7SENNF-PRV-09.

This course is updated annually. Expiration date: 5/1/11

The faculty and planners of this course have no vested interests to disclose.

This course has received no commercial support.