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Facilitating Cultural Humility and Attunement for Nursing and Health Professions Students Through a Study Abroad
Peninnah M Kako1, Carol G Klingbeil
1About the Authors Peninnah M. Kako, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, APNP, is an associate professor and director, DNP Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Carol G. Klingbeil, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC, is a clinical assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing. The authors would like to acknowledge Augustine Peegd Wende Rouamba for her contributions to the research. For more information, contact Dr. Klingbeil at klingbei@uwm.edu.
Aim:
This qualitative descriptive study aimed to evaluate the role of a short-term interprofessional study abroad program in Kenya on beginning awareness of cultural humility.
Background:
Students in the health care professions, including nursing, must learn to work effectively with diverse patient populations and provide culturally safe care.
Method:
Course assignments of 21 students were thematically analyzed to discover how students applied concepts of cultural attunement to learn cultural humility while interacting with people in rural and urban Kenya.
Results:
Student narrations acknowledged all aspects of cultural attunement during the experience: the pain of oppression; acted with reverence; reported coming from a place of not knowing; engaged in acts of humility; engaged in mutuality; and reported attaining harmony, cooperation, and accord.
Conclusion:
Findings suggest a short-term community-focused study abroad experience can be a valuable tool for beginning stages of becoming culturally humble and providing culturally safe health care.
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