By the year 2050, less than one half of the American population will be of European ancestry. The 2000 census revealed that 29.4% of the United States population already represents a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Because the nursing profession predominately consists of European Americans, a major challenge in nursing education is to educate and prepare future nurses with skills in transcultural nursing. A recent article in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing describes one school's multicultural curriculum for nursing students and a tool to measure changes in behaviors and attitudes. The article presents the psychometric properties of the Cross-Culutral Evaluation Tool that yields a cross-cultural interaction score. Successful teaching strategies are presented as well. Issues of of this journal are available in the Goodwin Library. This issue also devotes an entire supplementary volume to integrating culutural competence into nursing education and practice.
Source: Journal of Transcultural Nursing Vol. 18 No.1, January 2007 56-62.
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