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Development of bilingual tools to assess functional health patterns
1Boston College School of Nursing, MA, USA.
Topic:
The theory and process of developing bilingual assessment tools based on Gordon's 11 functional health patterns.
Purpose:
To facilitate assessing the individual, family, and community in a student clinical practicum in a Spanish-speaking country.
Sources:
Multiple family and community health promotion theories; translation theories, Gordon's Manual of Nursing Diagnosis (1982); translation/back-translation involving Ecuadorian faculty and students; student community assessments; faculty and staff workshops in Ecuador.
Conclusions:
Bilingual, culturally sensitive health assessment tools facilitate history taking, establish nursing diagnoses and interventions, and promote mutual learning. These outcomes demonstrate potential application to other systems in the international nursing community.