Thesis
Are associate degree nursing graduates adequately prepared to meet the cultural needs of their patients at the end of life?
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
2006
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/499
Abstract
With America's rapidly aging and increasingly diverse population, culturally sensitive end-of-life care is becoming an important part of general nursing care. In order to provide the dying and their family members with a peaceful death, the nurse must recognize and honor differences in how diverse cultures view death, including rituals practiced and how communication about sensitive topics are handled within that particular culture. When the nurse is insensitive or unaware of a patient's cultural practices, added stress and turmoil will be placed on the dying and their families preventing a peaceful transition from life. A quantitative non-experimental descriptive research method was used to study the cultural self-efficacy of second-year associate degree nursing students completing their sixth and final quarter at two large associate degree nursing programs in the Pacific Northwest. The study was conducted using the Transcultural Self-Efficacy Tool (TSET) developed by Dr. Marianne Jeffreys [unpublished instrument copyrighted by author, 1994]. Findings suggest a relatively high level of self-efficacy in caring for the general end-of-life cultural needs of these students' dying patients. These same students report relatively low self-efficacy in meeting these same needs of specific cultural populations within their local geographic area. It is recommended that nurse educators find creative educational methods to teach culturally sensitive end-of-life care in order to better prepare their students to meet the end-of-life cultural needs of non-dominant cultures within their own particular geographic area.
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- Title
- Are associate degree nursing graduates adequately prepared to meet the cultural needs of their patients at the end of life?
- Creators
- Rebecca Lynne. Ellis
- Contributors
- Renee Hoeksel (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Nursing, College of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525026801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis