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  • European intensive care nurses' cultural competency [Elektronski vir] : an international cross-sectional survey
    Dobrowolska, Beata ...
    Objectives: To determine the level of cultural competence of European critical care nurses. Design: A multi-country survey performed in 2017 as a part of the European project Multicultural Care in ... European Intensive Care Units. Method: Online survey of critical care nurses in 15 European countries (n = 591) using the Healthcare Provider Cultural Competence Instrument consisting of 49 items divided into five subscales: awareness and sensitivity, behaviour, patient-centred orientation, practice orientation and self-assessment. Descriptive and correlational analyses were performed. Results: Critical care nurses scored highest for "awareness and sensitivity" (M = 5.09, SD = 0.76), and lowest for "patient-centred communication" (M = 3.26, SD = 0.94). Nurses from northern and southern Europe scored higher across all subsets of the cultural competence instrument (all subsets, p < 0.001) than nurses from central Europe. Speaking other languages significantly correlated with higher scores in all subscales (all > 0.05) except "practice orientation". Previous education on multicultural nursing significantly correlated with higher scores in all subscales (all > 0.01) except patient-centred communication; and visits to other countries was negatively correlated with all subscales (all, p > 0.001) except patient-centred communication. Conclusion: Being exposed to cultural diversity in different ways, like living in a multicultural country, speaking a second language and visiting other countries may influence development of cultural competence. Therefore, programmes which facilitate multicultural clinical practice are strongly recommended in nursing education.
    Source: Intensive and critical care nursing [Elektronski vir]. - ISSN 1532-4036 (Vol. 60, Oct. 2020, str. 1-8)
    Type of material - e-article
    Publish date - 2020
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 19515907
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