GBL1315 Preparatory Seminar for Healthcare Relationships II- Understanding Difference through a Lens of Comparative Healthcare Systems

This course helps prepare students academically, inter-culturally, linguistically, and logistically for their short-term global experience in NRS 4315: Healthcare Relationships II: Understanding Difference through a Lens of Comparative Healthcare Systems. Students begin by exploring healthcare and healthcare systems in the U.S., while also beginning to learn to explore a case study in another part of the world. Through exploration of students’ own culture and biases and developing intercultural awareness, sensitivity, and humility, future nurses will learn to provide individualized and responsive care. This pre-departure course focuses on establishing a knowledge base and essential intercultural skills to address the needs of individual patients and communities across varying healthcare systems and healthcare delivery.

Credits

1 sh

Prerequisite

Permission of instructor.

Offered

• Fall

Notes

 

Learning Outcomes

1. 1. Explore the interdependence of healthcare and culture (NRS SLO)
2. Critically evaluate their own culture and biases as well as explore the impact of bias on US healthcare systems and delivery (GBL SLO #1)
3. 2. Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate their own cultyre and biases and identify personal stereotypes, biases (NRS SLO)
4. 3. Examine belief and value systems that are representative of the dominant culture in the United States and impact equitable health and healthcare in the US (NRS SLO).
5. 4. Demonstrate awareness of diversity within religious traditions including those related to concepts of health and wellness (NRS SLO)
6. 5. Display sensitivity to diverse cultural beliefs and practices while developing self-awareness and self-confidence through exposure to and reflection on differences (NRS SLO).
7. 6. Engage in culturally responsive and individualized communication and care (NRS SLO).
8. Understand the multiple dimensions of human experience within and across cultures and environments (GBL SLO #6)
9. 7. Identify disease prevalence, risk factors, and health disparity in multiple identity groups in the United States and Cuba (NRS SLO).
10. 8. Explain the importance of advocacy for equitable healthcare delivery and systems that support diversity and develop a lifelong professional commitment to the development of their own intercultural competencies in the US and Cuba (NRS SLO).
11. 9. Complete all necessary travel preparedness (NRS SLO).