title: Developing faculty expertise in culturally focused care and research.
abstract: The faculty development program was designed to extend expertise in culturally focused nursing care and research. Its main purposes were to operationalize the concept of culture in clinical practice settings and to stimulate culturally focused nursing research. The program was an interdisciplinary collaborative effort with content grounded in anthropological concepts and research methods. Content was divided into four phases: concepts basic to culturally focused care; use of research findings in the clinical area; methodological issues in culturally focused research; and analysis of culturally focused research proposals. The program resulted in greater integration of the concept of culture into theory and practice and in the development of several funded research proposals.
authors.affiliation: University of Miami School of Nursing, FL 33136.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: DeSantis
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education*