The effect of a cultural competence educational intervention for first-year nursing students in Israel.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention to increase general cultural competence of first-year nursing students.


METHODS
This was a quasi-experimental study that used a convenience sample with an experimental group and a control group and pre- and posttesting. The sample comprised 146 first-year nursing students enrolled in the Introduction to Nursing course divided into an intervention group (n = 58) of students from one school and a control group (n = 88) including students from two schools. The intervention group received a 2-hour faculty lecture on cultural competence, and students prepared and delivered a student group presentation about a cultural group in Israel, basing the presentation on Campinha-Bacote's five constructs. A demographic data instrument and Campinha-Bacote's Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professional-Revised© were used for pre- and posttesting.


RESULTS
Students who received the educational intervention increased scores significantly (68 ± 6 to 73 ± 6, p = .000), students who did not receive the educational intervention had no significant increase (67 ± 6 to 66 ± 6).


CONCLUSIONS
Introducing the topic of cultural competence for nursing students in the first-year Introduction to Nursing course as an integrative learning strategy revealed significant increases in cultural competence scores.


CONCLUSIONS
Recommendations are to include evidence-based cultural competence teaching strategies into the nursing curriculum.
Henrietta Szold/Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Evelyn
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054521:Cultural Competency / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education*; D055815:Young Adult
IAPCC-R; Israel; cultural competence; culture; nursing education; nursing students