title: Teaching Strategies to Increase Cultural Awareness in Nursing Students.
abstract: Cultural competence education is essential for all nurses to better prepare them to address the underlying social environment of patients, families, and communities. This article describes a study with second degree nursing students that tested 6 teaching strategies for their effectiveness in raising cultural awareness, a key aspect of cultural competence. The results demonstrated that the interventions had a positive effect.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor, School of Health Sciences, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, Ohio.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lonneman
mesh_terms: D054521:Cultural Competency / Q000193:education*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*