Cultural competency requires that one be skilled at grasping both the emic (insider) and etic (outsider) perspectives, for it is in knowing and feeling a people’s experiences and history that we begin to understand the logic of their behavior and gain insight into our own as healthcare providers. This course assists the student to recognize the myriad health-related beliefs and practices that exist among and between members of a culture and how those beliefs and practices impact upon the health of their members.
This four-week experience exposes the student to transcultural concepts and theories in action, opportunities to assess individual and collective determinants of health, and the challenge of providing culturally competent care to individuals, families, and groups. Students are exposed to different empirical, aesthetic, and ethical frameworks to assist them in providing holistic, culturally competent care. Clinical experiences can occur in diverse rural clinical and community settings with an emphasis on therapeutic interventions, health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, and health teaching within a unique ethno-cultural environment.
Course: NURS 346
Location: Jamaica
Prerequisite: NURS 234
Instructors: Jeanne-Marie Havener
Curricular requirement: NTW
Cost: $3,560
Length of program: 28 days
Meals: All meals included
Prices listed on the off-campus J Term Web site are ESTIMATES. If there are factors such as fluctuations in currency exchange rates, fuel prices, etc. that affect the final cost of a program, a fee adjustment will be announced October 11, 2010.
