Graduation Year
2025
Document Type
Senior Thesis
Degree
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Primary Major
Nursing
Thesis Advisor
Andrea Boyle, PhD, FNAP, ANP
Abstract
Providing appropriate care to patients in the healthcare setting includes being aware of their culture. Nurses play an important role in caring for patients and need to know how to be culturally sensitive toward their patients. Various research articles highlight the lack of knowledge and comfort that current nurses and nurse educators have when caring for culturally diverse patients. Research also shows that a lack of overall knowledge about how to be culturally competent, knowing how to care for patients from different backgrounds, and understanding the effect cultural beliefs have on modern-day medicine poses a challenge when trying to provide the best care for an individual patient (Brottman et al., 2020). There is a gap in research about the knowledge and comfort that nursing students have when caring for culturally diverse patients. Native Americans are a commonly overlooked culturally-sensitive population, especially the Elders within their community. This research proposes a quasi-experimental study to determine whether or not an educational intervention increases student nurses’ knowledge and comfort level when caring for Native American Elders. In this study, a convenience sample of 100 senior nursing students from a university in Northern California will take a pre-test, complete an educational module intervention program, then complete a post-test. Descriptive statistics will be used to analyze the means and medians of both the pre-test and post-test. In this analysis, higher means indicate an overall higher knowledge and comfort level.
Included in
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Nursing Administration Commons, Other Education Commons