Nursing students′ cultural ability of two vocational colleges in Shanghai
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2015.29.003
- VernacularTitle:上海市两所高职院校护生文化能力的调查
- Author:
Haiping YU
1
;
Liu LIANG
;
Min CHENG
;
Yichen XU
;
Wenmei XU
;
Jin CAO
;
Chenqing ZHAO
;
Youqing PENG
Author Information
1. 200120 上海，同济大学附属东方医院特诊部
- Keywords:
Students,nursing;
Vocational nursing college;
Cultural competence
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2015;(29):3485-3488
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate nursing students′ cultural ability of two Shanghai vocational colleges in order to provide the scientific basis of teaching methods and clinical practice for improving nursing students′cultural ability. Methods By adopting inventory for assessing the process of cultural competence among health care professionals revised ( IAPCC-R ) , 529 nursing students in two vocational colleges were investigated. Results The average score of nursing students′cultural competence was (65. 53 ± 6. 50), 91. 1%of the students were in general level; 8. 1% of the students were in high level, 0. 8% nursing students were without cultural competence, no one was found as a proficient person in this area. There was significant difference between students in different colleges (t=3. 714,P<0. 001); There was no significant difference among students in different grades (F=3. 714,P=0. 452). Conclusions Generally nursing students′ cultural ability in Shanghai was not high, so efforts are needed to increase the humanities curriculums in colleges and teaching staffs′culture ability as well as the examinations of cultural ability, which are very important for nursing students to provide professional humanistic care services for patients after they work in hospital as nurses.
