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Ruth McDermott-Levy1, Bette Mariani, Paul Lupinacci
1Professor (Dr McDermott-Levy) and Associate Professor and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs (Dr Mariani), M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania; Co-Director (Dr McDermott-Levy), Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Villanova, Pennsylvania; and Associate Professor (Dr Lupinacci), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania.
Background:
The United States has the largest, most diverse immigrant population. Nurses will care for immigrant clients in all areas of nursing practice.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to determine nursing students' self-efficacy in working with immigrant clients following a service-learning experience.
Methods:
A pre-/posttest descriptive study was used to measure students' self-efficacy in cultural aspects of screening, providing health education, and assisting with health care access prior to and after a voluntary service-learning experience at a resettlement agency.
Results:
Statistical significance was found in overall scale score and in all 19 individual items except 2 related to working with (P = .21) and communicating with (P = .49) the health care team. Overall, pretest and posttest results revealed that students' self-efficacy working with immigrant clients was improved.
Conclusion:
Collaborating with an immigrant resettlement program to provide a structured immigrant health learning experience for prelicensure nursing students can improve self-efficacy in working with immigrant clients.
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