Advocating for Cultural Competency in Nursing: A unique experience in Israel

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Advocating for Cultural Competency in Nursing
A unique experience in Israel

• Sara Nissim R.N. M.A.
• Deputy Director, Zfat School of Nursing
• Israel

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Cultural Competence
Relatively new concept in academic disciplines
and in nursing

• Between 1990 and 2003, a total of 1,114 articles
  were
• published to deal with cultural competence in
  nursing care, with 127 of them focused on the
  development and application of cultural
  competence models in nursing .
• Major authors contributing to the advancement of
  the knowledge include Leininger Campinha-Bacote
  Giger and Davidhizar Orque, Purnell, and
  Paulanka Spector and Andrews and Boyle among
  others.
• (Zuwang 2004)

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Cultural Competence in Zfat

• Nursing Division at the Israel Ministry of Health
• 2000
• Mandated all Nursing Schools In Israel to add a
  Unique Program of 500 hours on any subject by
  school choice.

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Zfat Nursing Schoolschoice

• Transcultural Nursing

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Transcultural nursing as

• Philosophy
• Model for practice
• As a basis for decision making
• A string through the curriculum
• Visible and invisible massage to the population
  in the region
• As a base for developing tailored nursing

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Cultural Competent Nursing Care Zfat Model
3rd year
Competence
Sensitivity
2nd year
Awareness
1st year
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Seminar Objectives

• Implementing Cultural Assessment in Diverse
  Cultures using different Cultural assessment
  tools
• 2. Collecting and sorting Etic and Emic
  Information using Qualitative methods
• 3. Suggesting Culturally Appropriate
  Interventions using Leiningers(1987) modes
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  Preservation/ Maintenance
• 
  Accommodation / Negotiation
• 
  Restructuring /Repatterning

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The Different Child Within The Druze Family
Response To Follow-up During Pregnancy In Habad
Women

• Pain Perception In Bedouins

Coping With Death In Ethiopian Community
Tradition Healing And Herbs Within The Circcusin
Community
The Connection Between Food And High Blood
pressure In Russian Olim
Circumcision In Christian Arabs In Israel
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Extra curricular Community Activities

• Acceptance and tolerance of others
• Cultural uniqueness
• Translation Ethiopian Students
• Health Promotion In The Galilee Communities

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Cultural Competencein Israel

• Nursing Division at the Israel Ministry of Health
• 2006
• Included Transcultural Nursing in the
  CorCurriculum, Demanding from
• all Nursing Schools In Israel to include the
  subject in their Curricula

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Zfat School of Nursings suggestion, to
incorporate the subject in the curriculum as
presented in February 2006, during The Israeli
Nursing Schools annual Convention
The program was presented as a workshop including
examples of teaching methods and relevant
Bibliography and included a CD present for all
Nursing Schools with all the relevant teaching
aids.
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Thank Youfor your attention

• Till day we have helped 3 nursing schools
  developing their own program and advised to many
  more