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The Program
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Course Syllabi
- Cultural Immersion Seminar
- Cultures,Communities and Health Care
- Family Theory and Intervention Across
Cultures
- Practicum in International Family Focussed Nursing
COURSE TITLE: Interdisciplinary Health Care Across Cultures
COURSE CREDIT
& CLOCK HOURS: 3 semester credits
(2 cr. theory-1 cr. practicum)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course focuses on the various roles of team members in light of the culture in which they practice. Students will explore interdisciplinary models used by care teams to reach the goals of health maintenance and health care for their populations. Processes and issues effecting interdisciplinary interaction will be addressed. Of special significance will be the services, policies, economic, ethical, and ethnic issues affecting families within each country.
TEACHING
METHOD:
Students will complete a web-based module on how interdisciplinary health care roles are defined, actualized, or envisioned within the participating countries. Students will observe and interview interdisciplinary health care team members about their roles and evaluate and suggest changes in health care delivery in light of the health care system and the culture in which they are immersed.
COURSE
OBJECTIVES:
- Describe the roles of various health team members relative to the country's health care delivery system.
- Compare and contrast multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary models of practice in health care.
- As related to basic knowledge of European and US health care systems and nursing services
- Analyze how interdisciplinary learning and care models affect health care processes and outcomes across cultures and countries as related to formal and informal caregiving.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
Within specific theoretical and practice models:
1. Analyze meanings, perceptions and communication patterns in interdisciplinary interactions.
2. Synthesize disciplinary competence, leadership, assertiveness, professional integrity, shared borders, motivators, barriers and quality
3. Compare and contrast history, practice philosophy, professional training, logistics, and resources that impact on interdisciplinary work across cultures and countries.
4. Plan interdisciplinary approaches to care for individuals and families within specific practice areas of a health care system, such as MCH, DD/SHCN, MHN, Transition care, Rehab, Home care, Care of the elderly.
COURSE
OUTLINE:
1. Models of interdisciplinary health care across cultures
1. Concepts and definitions
2. Processes and structures
1.
European and
2. Developing countries and health care
3. Social, cultural, and social policy factors
4. Legislative frameworks for provision of nursing and other health services
5. Formal and informal care I: Welfare mixes
6. Formal and informal care II: Family caregivers vs. professional care
7. Theoretical models of interdisciplinary health care
2. Historical and cultural considerations impacting professional relationships (2 weeks)
1. National, regional and ethnic
2. Health care system history and culture
3. Professional disciplinary history and culture
3. Communication issues across cultures
1. Interdisciplinary communication issues
2. Building interdisciplinary working relationships
3. Motivators and barriers
4. Professional integrity and shared borders
5. Education and training in interdisciplinary models
4. Actualizing interdisciplinary care across cultures
1. Logistics and resources
2. Quality assurance processes
3. The family nurse as care manager
1. WHO Initiative
2. Advanced Practice Nursing skills
3. Facilitating family self-care; advocacy
4. Interdisciplinary services in special care areas
1. Pregnancy and delivery in clinics and home settings
2. Children with special health care needs and developmental disabilities
3. Community mental health services
4. Transition care from hospital to community
5. Rehabilitation
6. Home care
7. Care of the elderly
5. Use case studies to identify interdisciplinary approaches to care. (Integrated)
COURSE
EVALUATION:
1. Records of e-mail or verbal discussion of cases with faculty and peers, a summary and/or written assignments
2. Culture-specific interdisciplinary plans of care for selected families.
REQUIRED
TEXTS:
Drinka,
Theresa J. K. & Clark, Phillip G. (2000). Health Care Teamwork:
Interdisciplinary Practice and Teaching.
Robinson, Jane; Avis, Mark; Latimer, Joanna; and Traynor, Michael. (1999). Interdisciplinary Perspectives
on Health Policy and Practice: Competing Interests or Complementary
Interpretations? Churchill Livingstone, Harcourt
Publishers, Limited;