Find an Article on a Societal Factor that is Affecting Nursing/Patient Education Curriculum
Find an Article on a Societal Factor that is Affecting Nursing Patient Education Curriculum
Nursing forms one of the most important health care areas as concerns the quality of life of patients. Founded on the central tenet of caring, nursing strives to protect, promote and optimize the health status and abilities for purposes of cushioning human beings against any form of sickness that may befall them. The nursing profession helps in the provision of care to the sickly people and alleviation of suffering of the same category of a population via numerous methodologies. According to numerous literature on nursing, the provision of holistic care that involves diagnosis and management of pathological conditions forms a central role of the nursing profession. One of the ways that nurses play their role involves the application of health promotion strategies. The creation of nursing or patient education curriculum to guide nurses or patients concerning the avoidance and management of disease conditions precedes these promotional undertakings by nurses. However, Gonen and Lev-Ari (2016) reveal that the establishment of the curriculum cannot occur without consideration of certain societal factors whose roles receive prominence in the area. Indeed, scholars have examined several of these factors with the objective of understanding their influence on the process. Thus, an analysis of an article covering one of the factors will crucially contribute to the comprehension of how a societal role can influence the creation of patient/nurse education curriculum.
Nicole, M., & Patricia, L. (2014). Cultural competency among nurses with undergraduate and graduate degrees: Implications for nursing education. Nursing Education Perspectives, 35(2), 83-88.
The society possess certain expectations concerning the objectives that should receive priority when designing a nursing/patient education curriculum. The composition of the patient population in the United States has become increasingly diverse and thus there exists a need for the curriculum to reflect this diversity. Nicole and Patricia (2014) examined the level and comfort of cultural competence of nurses with varying educational qualifications when attending to patients from multifarious cultural backgrounds. Indeed, the article looked to highlight the areas in cultural competence that nursing curriculum can strengthen in order to align with the increasingly diverse patient population. A prospective, cross sectional and descriptive study design was used by the researchers to identify the existence of these areas. The analysis of the results revealed that the existing curriculum lacks cultural diversity training for both undergraduate-degree nurses and graduate-degree nurses and also identified specific areas that stakeholders should address.
Reason for Choosing the Article
The present author elected the article by Nicole and Patricia (2014) because of the manner in which it approached the issue of the absence of cultural competence in nursing education curriculum for both undergraduate-degree nurses and graduate-degree nurses. By comparing the two categories of nurses and revealing that both of them do not receive adequate cultural competence training, the article fortified the need to address this societal issue so as to improve the quality of care offered by nurses. Further, the two authors identified specific areas of need as regards cultural competence training for both undergraduate and graduate nurses. In this respect, the present author would implement the specific identifications of the article to improve the existence of cultural competence in nursing both for the patient and the nurse. By integrating the area into the curriculum, nurses will demonstrate cultural competence when handling patients and even when designing promotional materials for them.
Conclusion
Therefore, cultural considerations need to play a greater role in the creation of a nursing/patient education curriculum. The United States has become increasingly diverse, which implies that cultural competence among nurses has become ever more paramount. Studies such as the one examined above have accentuated the need for the integration of cultural competence training in nursing curriculum across the country. By doing this, nurses will improve the quality of their services hence patient education.
Find an article on a societal factor that is affecting nursing/patient education curriculum. Summarize your article for your classmates in one or two paragraphs. Discuss why you chose the article and what can be learned from this trend – how would you use it to improve the quality of nursing/patient education? This article and those posted by your classmates may become the foundation of your paper due in Topic 2. Be sure to include the entire citation in APA format. The article you select cannot be from any of the course materials or supplemental readings. Please note: It is a violation of copyright law to post the entire text of the article to an online discussion board. So be sure to post only the citation information so that the article can be located if someone is interested in reading more. The article should come from a graduate-level journal, like an advanced practice journal or nursing education journal – not an entry-level journal like AJN, RN, Nursing, etc.