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Overview of Project
| Project Title: | Developing Cultural Competencies for Nurses: Evidence-based Best Practices |
| Applicant Organization: | University of Michigan-Flint |
| Project Director: | Margaret M. Andrews, PhD, RN, CTN, FAAN |
| Director of Nursing, School of Health Professions & Studies | |
| The University of Michigan-Flint | |
| Project Co-Director: | Teresa Cervantez Thompson, PhD, RN, CRRN-A |
| Dean, College of Nursing & Health, Madonna University | |
| Address: | 303 E. Kearsley Street, 2180 William S. White Building, Flint MI 48502-1950 |
| Phone: | (810) 762-3422 |
| Fax: | (810) 766-6851 |
| Email: | mmandrew@umflint.edu |
| Website: | http://www.umflint.edu/nursing |
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The University of Michigan-Flint (UM-F) in partnership with Madonna University, and with the support of the Transcultural Nursing Society and other organizations with missions that focus on developing cultural competencies, will provide online and face-to-face educational offerings for nurses to enhance their cognitive, affective, and psychomotor cultural competencies and develop their skills in addressing individuals, groups, and communities that are diverse, with special emphasis on those at risk for health disparities. A series of educational offerings focused on developing cultural competencies using a train-the-trainer model will be provided. Faculty will include some of the foremost transcultural nursing leaders in the nation including authors of textbooks on the subject and other nursing experts on cultural competence. |
| A culturally competent nursing and health care workforce is needed to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors and choices that will reduce, and ultimately eliminate, health disparities. The focus of the educational offerings will be on the relationship between nurses’ cultural competencies and the reduction or elimination of health disparities across the life span from infancy to old age. Special emphasis will be given to the following Healthy People 2010 risk factors and health disparities: obesity, depression, low birth weight infants, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, HIV/AIDS, and cancer. The project also will prepare nurses to become Certified Transcultural Nurses (CTN) and will provide extensive online, print, and audiovisual resources on cultural competence and health disparities. |
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This website is maintained by Margaret L. Danowski, Madonna University. Please send comments or suggestions to mdanowski@madonna.edu . Last updated 10-30-08.
