DOI: 10.5176/2251-3833_GHC18.128
Authors: Patricia M. Burrell
Abstract: Transcultural Nursing focuses on acknowledging, knowing about, learning more about and using the culture of our clients in their nursing care. Cultural competence, a lifelong evolving skill, is defined as a set of cultural behaviors and attitudes integrated into the practice methods of a system, agency, or its professionals, that enables them to work effectively in cross cultural situations. A research agenda that examines the effectiveness of Transcultural Nursing threads throughout the nursing curriculum was established in 2006 utilizing Jeffreys’ Transcultural Self-Efficacy Tool. We examined a small sample of our graduating senior BSN students in 2016/17. We looked at the self-efficacy of the students in their utilization of transcultural nursing skills. The TSET is based on perceived self-efficacy in cognitive, practical and affective skills (Jeffreys, 2010). Results: On the cognitive scale, 35.43% of the students perceived themselves as high, while 63.43% perceived themselves as medium. On the practical scale, 24.66% scored high, with 71.93% scoring medium. On the affective scale, 64.12% scored high, 35.71% scored medium.. Recommendations: It’s time to examine
the transcultural nursing threads throughout our curriculum.
Keywords: cultural compeence, transcultural nursing, Transculturall Self-Efficacy Tool
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