Herzing Framework for Cultural Assessment of the Nigerian Culture

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NURS 125 Life Span Development and Nursing Practice
Name of Assignment: Cultural Awareness Project
COURSE OUTCOME: Outcome met by completing this assignment is in bold.
Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Explain the concept of lifespan development—human growth and learning from conception to death
2. Identify major theorists and theories in developmental psychology.
3. List and describe the major stages of human growth and development and patient teaching and learning implications.
4. State appropriate behavioral expectations and developmental tasks associated with each major stage of development.
5. Describe the biological, nutritional, psychological, social changes and cultural implications that occur at each stage of the life cycle.
6. Explore the processes involved in death and dying.
7. Relate lifespan development concepts to the nursing process, and apply leadership skills to health promotion/restoration.

Nursing Program Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Employ critical thinking and reasoning to utilize the nursing process as a framework to deliver comprehensive, safe, and culturally sensitive care across the lifespan.
2. Demonstrate clinical competence in the performance of nursing skills utilizing quality measures to provide safe effective nursing care.
3. Apply best current evidence and appropriate nursing judgment in collaboration with the patient to guide clinical decision making in the delivery of nursing care.
4. Collaborate and communicate effectively with patients, families and their social support system, and the members of the health care team to achieve mutually agreed upon patient outcomes.
5. Practice within the ethical, legal and regulatory frameworks of professional standards for nursing, including employing agencies’ standards of care, assuming students had no past conduct or convictions, which prevent such practice.
6. Construct a framework of personal accountability for lifelong learning with an entry-level set of knowledge, skills, and behaviors to provide safe, effective nursing care.
7. Employ information literacy skills through the effective use of informatics to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate errors, and support decision-making.

INSTITUTIONAL OUTCOMES:
1. Employ information literacy skills through the effective use of technology and information resources to accomplish a goal.
2. Follow established, habitual, and scientific methods to create opportunities for growth and increase critical awareness of one’s responsibilities as a contributor to society.
3. Develop thinking processes and utilize learning strategies to understand their metacognitive abilities.
4. Transfer knowledge from life lessons and formal instruction to new situations as evidence of relational learning. NURS 125 Herzing Framework for Cultural Assessment of the Nigerian Culture
5. Demonstrate proficient mathematic and communication (written and oral) skills as required in the workplace.

Purpose of the assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to continue to enhance the student’s writing skill in Writing in the Discipline (WID) and communication.  The assignment will allow the student to enhance their knowledge regarding caring for individuals and families from diverse cultures.  The assignment will also assist the students by enhancing their skills in using various databases for research and APA style of referencing citations.  NURS 125 Herzing Framework for Cultural Assessment of the Nigerian Culture
Description of the assignment:
1. Each student will be given a culture to research.
2. The student will research the specific culture.
3. The research paper must be a minimum of 4 pages.
4. APA format.
5. Must use scholarly journals, websites, books and / or articles.
6. The researched information should include:
a. The thesis / purpose of the assignment.
b. Discuss the framework for the cultural assessment which includes
• Communication
 Language spoken, pronunciation, use of silence, use of non-verbal communication
• Space
 Degree of comfort one feels in proximity to others in body movement and perception of personal, intimate and public space
• Social
 Family role and function
 Religious beliefs and practices
 Work, leisure and friends
• Time
 Perception of time in relation to duration of events, time as an external entity and outside of control
• Biological variation
 Body structure, body weight, skin color, internal biological mechanisms such as genetic and predisposition to certain diseases, drug interactions and metabolism
• Environment
 Type of dwelling
 More than just the place one lives, should also include the processes that influence the individual/group.
• Hygiene
• Nutritional preferences
c. Illness and wellness behaviors
• Beliefs regarding illness and wellness
• Medicine vs no use of medication
• Use of healers … etc.

 

 

d. Cultural values
e. Implications for nursing care
• Select at least 1 QSEN competency to discuss the nursing implications for the knowledge, skills and attitudes for competent and safe patient care.
f. Student Learning outcome
• Provide a paragraph identifying how one of the student learning outcomes was met through completing this project. (student learning outcomes are located on the syllabus)

Remember failure to properly cite your information can lead to a zero for the entire paper.

ORAL POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
It is important for nurses to have the ability and a comfort level to communicate and care for a diverse population of patients.  The student will articulate their Cultural Awareness Project on the assigned date.  An oral report of their findings will assist the student with gaining a level of comfort for completing oral patient education.

1. The oral PowerPoint presentation should be an overview of their Cultural Awareness Presentation which includes some pertinent researched information.
2. The presentation should be at least 5 minutes in duration.
3. PowerPoint requirements
a. Content:
i. Communication, space, social, time, biological variation, environment, hygiene, nutrition, illness/wellness behaviors, cultural values
b. Slides must all be formatted the same
c. Use the 7×7 rule – no more than 7 bullets per slide, no more than 7 words per bullet.
d. No full sentences on the slide. Leave those for your notes field.
e. Detailed notes in your note field
f. Make sure to properly cite information and pictures on the slides
g. APA format
4. Grading will be based on the attached rubric.
5. Test questions may be drawn from any of the topics presented.
6. Presentations must be completed prior to the scheduled date.  Students that come to class late on the date of their scheduled presentation will have points deducted.  Also students that are not prepared to present at the beginning of class will have points deducted.

Possible Points: 50 points. See rubric

 

Due Date: All Cultural Awareness Projects are due at the beginning of the class period- see tracking calendar.
Completed Power point and Research Paper are both due at the beginning of class. No exceptions
Please see the tracking calendar for dates designated for the presentations.
Late Policy:   Late assignments will only be accepted if the criteria described in the NURS 125 Supplemental Syllabus has been met and the required documentation provided.
Cheating / plagiarism / dishonesty will result in a zero for the project
Please feel free to ask the instructor if you do not understand any of these Guidelines.