Free online course from the
Health Resources and Services Administration:
Unified Health Communication 101: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency.
This course is designed to:
~improve your patient communication skills
~increase your awareness and knowledge of the three main factors that affect your communication with patients: health literacy, cultural competency and low English proficiency
~implement patient-centered communication practices that demonstrate cultural competency and appropriately address patients with limited health literacy and low English proficiency
The 5 modules take about 5 hours to complete and you can move at your own pace.Labels: health literacy, muticultural communication, online course, patient communication
MELTING, standing for
Multi-Ethnic Learning and Teaching in Nursing.
A collaborative project initiated by the
Mary Seacole Centre in the UK aimed at raising awareness of the multi-ethnic dimension of nursing, essential in today’s culturally diverse and rich society.
The MELTING project, launched in 2004, is now a model for transcultural healthcare practice, suitable for nurses and midwives involved in learning disability, adult, child and mental health. It also includes sections on the epidemiology and politics of diversity, transcultural communication and healthcare practice, multi-agency, race equality management and clinical supervision.
The
Mary Seacole Centre works to promote the integration of a multi-ethnic philosophy into the process of nursing and midwifery recruitment, education, practice, management and research.
Labels: Caribbean nurses, diversity in nursing, history of nursing, Mary Seacole, MELTING, multi-ethic, multi-ethic education, muticultural communication, nursing education, transcultural healthcare
