Learning Cultural Humility Through Stories and Global Service-Learning

Service-learning experiences are often utilized by nursing programs in efforts to increase the cultural competence of nursing students. Through the use of sharing story, the concepts of cultural competence and cultural humility can be explained for students preparing for upcoming intercultural experiences. This case study describes the experience of nursing students and university faculty on their first service-learning trip to rural Kenya and how the intercultural issues were navigated there as students developed characteristics of cultural humility. This story is now being shared in preparations for subsequent international trips with nursing students and can be a model for programs wanting to prepare for service-learning experiences

Promoting Cultural Humility: LGBTQIA+ Education for Healthcare Providers

Abstract: Purpose: LGBTQIA+ patients experience devastating mental health and substance abuse disparities. While our organization has a broad non-discrimination statement that includes gender identity and sexual orientation, there is no guidance for how to best serve these patients. Evidence suggests training sessions are a successful means of increasing LGBTQIA+ cultural competency, with “Safe Zone” identified as being especially successful on college campuses. The Healthcare Equality Index also calls for education to demonstrate healthcare organizations’ commitment to LGBTQIA+ patients. Intervention: We developed an educational workshop - Safe Zone – with university psychologists. This workshop included interactive exercises that focused on increasing empathy and cultural humility. Implementation: A formal pilot was completed with inpatient psychiatric nurses. Results demonstrated increased comfort interacting with and advocating for LGBTQIA+ patients, as well as increased knowledge of health disparities and terminology. The workshop, along with pre-and post-education survey data, was presented to key stakeholders in the organization. Outcomes: Safe Zone is now in the early stages of dissemination across the organization. This will give all staff the opportunity to increase their knowledge of LGBTQIA+ patients. We are consulting on clinical information changes happening within our organization. These include creating specific education bulletins to assist staff with asking patients about their LGBTQIA+ identity. Future Implications: We will examine if and how Safe Zone improves experiences for LGBTQIA+ patients. Safe Zone will inspire staff to advocate for their organization to be more inclusive of LGBTQIA+ patients. Education is one aspect of the Healthcare Equality Index, but also a critical step to creating an equitable LGBTQIA+ environment

Teaching Cultural Humility and Competence: A Multi-disciplinary Course for Public Health and Health Services Students

Poster on the interdisciplinary Cultural Humility and Competence course taught at the Jefferson School of Population Health for the past several years. Overall Course Aim: Why a multi-disciplinary cultural humility competence course? An in-depth and advanced understanding of cultural diversity, health inequities and cultural competence in inter-professional health and human service delivery and administration. Facilitate development of cultural competence and humility in one\u27s self, colleagues and the work environment and its application to practice

Cultural Humility: A Framework for Local and Global Engagement

Many institutions of higher education have implemented local and global engagement opportunities as a way to expose both students and faculty to different cultures and further their knowledge of those cultures. One of the primary goals of these cultural experiences is for students and faculty to become more culturally competent. However, it is possible that our current way of thinking and promoting cultural competency within education specifically may not go deep enough and could be considered limiting in the ways we partner, collaborate, and interact with people groups different than ourselves. Cultural humility, a construct currently accepted in some professional preparation programs in the medical field, may be the foundation from which to shift our thinking and practices about cultural competence within education and provide a deeper meaning and understanding to our work around the globe. This article describes the experiences and reflections, as well as personal and professional applications of three faculty members from George Fox University as we have participated extensively in global engagement experiences. Each faculty member addresses three questions that we considered which directly related to our experiences and learning journeys: (1) How have we changed our perceptions or assumptions as a result of our interactions within the context of these opportunities? (2) Have we changed our practices or thinking? (3) Are we more culturally competent as a result of these experiences than before we embarked on our global engagement initiatives

Race, Culture & Abuse of Persons with Disabilities

This chapter will explore how race and culture influence the lives of persons with disabilities who are experiencing abuse. The discussion will be framed by an intersectional lens and will be informed by cultural humility and critical race theory. Practitioners need to remain open to the idea that they cannot and will not know all there is to know about any given culture, and they should be open to hearing about their clients’ understanding and experiences of culture. Rather than knowing certain pieces of “knowledge” about a cultural group, it is more important to understand what pieces of culture the clients embrace or reject. This chapter will conclude with a composite client case example of a female, middle-aged, Korean immigrant with Multiple Sclerosis, who is very active in her Christian church, and who is being abused by her husband. Discussion of this case will highlight the intersectional context of the client’s experience and how they may influence her decision to seek help (and from whom) as well as her experience of receiving help. The case discussion also highlights the practitioner’s values and behaviors that are consistent with cultural humility and critical race theory

Caring for diverse populations : further steps towards increasing cultural humility in the UMHS primary catchment area [abstract]

Cultural humility has long been identified as key to effectively working in diverse populations. Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of cultural humility in health care provider education. Over the past several decades, Missouri has become more and more of a 'melting pot'. Karen Edison and the Center for Health Policy are leading an effort to provide an educational resource for health and public policy stakeholders working with varied populations in Missouri

Download entire PDF InterProfessional Education and Care Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2009-2010

Articles in the newsletter include: Advanced Physical Diagnosis: An Innovative Interprofessional Approach for Teaching Clinical Skills to Senior Medical Students An Innovative Interprofessional Course: Cultural Humility and Competence Interprofessional Geriatric Education: Team-based Care for Chronic Condition