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Religion plays a major role in the decision-making of patients, but most medical professionals are not trained to address this when providing care. Tanenbaum trains doctors and nurses to understand how cultural competence and recognizing religion-based health decisions result in better patient-centered care.

To learn more, email us at healthcare@tanenbaum.org.

We are excited to launch Tanenbaum's new Health Care Insights series and invite you to become a regular viewer. Tanenbaum will regularly highlight an issue involving religion in health care settings, and provide ideas for how to address it. The current topic is end of life care and belowyou will find more information about the topic from our Medical School Curriculum. To stay informed about future topics, and check the box marked "Religion in Health Care."

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Religion plays a major role in the decision-making of patients, but most medical professionals are not trained to address this when providing care. Tanenbaum trains doctors and nurses to understand how cultural competence and recognizing religion-based health decisions result in better patient-centered care. To learn more, email us at healthcare@tanenbaum.org.

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6 Tips for Creating An Effective PowerPoint Presentation

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6 Tips for Creating An Effective PowerPoint Presentation

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The saying that all PowerPoint developers should keep in mind is, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." Almost all software development tools give you amazing features that allow you to create awesome content. But a presentation full of awesome features, animations, colors, and fonts doesn't always make a good presentation. Here are 6 simple things that will improve your presentation and benefit your audience.

1. Font Size and Type:

When presenting keep in mind that your audience is a lot further away from the screen than you were while you were creating the presentation. So to make sure your audience can comprehend what is being presented, never insert text into your presentation that is smaller than 24pt.

Not only does font size help with comprehension, but font type plays a huge factor as well. As a general rule, never use any fonts with serifs (the fancy projection finishing off a stroke of a letter) or any fonts that resemble papyrus (I'm looking at you, high school kids). While these types of fonts may look great close up on a computer screen 17 inches from your face, the same clarity and understanding doesn't translate when you are 15-20 feet away. And to help create a sense of unity within the presentation, never use more than two font types: one for titles and headers, and the other for body text.

2. Labels:

A procedure that may seem mundane and worthless like labeling all your graphs, tables, charts, and etc. makes a huge difference when presenting to an audience. Again, they don't know the content as well as you do and you have to walk your audience by hand through the information. This is especially important when it has to do with the type of content that is generally presented in tables and charts (lots and lots of numbers).

3. Consistent Backgrounds:

When it comes to backgrounds, there is definitely a method to the madness. Good presentations ameliorate content with backgrounds that don't detract from the flow of the presentation. And good presenters will interchange between one or two different backgrounds depending on the information shown on screen. If this is done consistently, you will almost always know what kind of information is being displayed because the presenter defined it through the correlation of the content and the background.

4. Contrast:

This tip goes hand in hand with tip #1 and #3. If you are set on using certain font types and colors in your presentation, make sure that your content is always easy to read after the background images are applied. Always go back through your presentation and locate the trouble spots and mask your text with a darker (or lighter) shape. This will allow you to keep your background selection and create a presentation that is easy to read and digest.

5. High Quality Images:

7 words: Absolutely use nothing that resembles clip art. This will be easier to do now that PowerPoint has drifted away from using it. I don't know how hard I need to try and convince you not to use it, but in case you do like using it, here is a bulleted list of why you should never use clip art in a presentation ever again.

Childish

Overused

Not professional

You can do so much better

Audience won't take you seriously

Etc.

Presenting and presentation is headed to a more simplistic and modern approach to design. Clip art is stepping back into the 90's. You can tell better stories and give better examples by using high quality images. And if royalties and licensing scares you, go to eLearning Brothers and use some of our 2 million royalty free assets! It pays to to look for the perfect image.

6. Duplicate Final Slide:

While perusing the internet this last week I found a rather peculiar tip, it was to duplicate your final slide in its final state (meaning what it would look like without any animations or transitions) so that you never accidentally double click and skip to the black screen of death before it is time. This is such a simple tip that creates a huge safeguard when presenting at prestigious conferences or in front of your CEO.

Whether or not you deliver an effective presentation is decided long before you stand in front of an audience. It is decided during the production of your presentation. So take the time and give the time an awesome presentation deserves. Do you have any tips for creating an awesome presentation that you would like to share? Comment below!

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A Guide to Culturally Competent Nursing Care

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A Guide to Culturally Competent Nursing Care

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Cultural respect is vital to reduce health disparities and improve access to high-quality healthcare that is responsive to patients' needs, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nurses must respond to changing patient demographics to provide culturally sensitive care. This need is strikingly evident in critical care units.

"As an emergency room nurse in a small rural hospital, I was present when an elderly Native American man was brought to the emergency room by his wife, sons, and daughters," Deborah Flowers says in Critical Care Nurse. "He had a history of 2 previous myocardial infarctions, and his current clinical findings suggested he was having another. During the patient's assessment, he calmly informed the emergency room staff and physician that, other than coming to the hospital, he was following the 'old ways' of dying. He had 'made peace with God and was ready to die' and 'wanted his family with him.'"

"The emergency room physician ordered intravenous fluids, a dopamine infusion, a Foley catheter, and transfer to the intensive care unit of a regional hospital 3 hours away. The patient died 2 weeks and 2 code blues later, and was intubated and receiving mechanical ventilation for most of that time. No family members were present when he died except for his wife. The rest of his family members were unable to afford the cost of traveling to a healthcare facility that far from home. This man's cultural values and preferences in relation to dying were disregarded."

In contrast, promoting culturally competent nursing care helps nurses function effectively with other professionals and understand the needs of groups accessing health information and healthcare.

Examining Culturally Competent Nursing Care

Definitions

Cultural competence can be defined as "developing an awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, and environment without letting it have an undue influence on those from other backgrounds; demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the client's culture; accepting and respecting cultural differences; adapting care to be congruent with the client's culture," according to Larry Purnell in his book Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach (1998).

Another definition states that cultural competence "describes how to best meet the needs of an increasingly diverse patient population and how to effectively advocate for them," says Barbara L. Nichols, former CEO of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools, in NSNA Imprint.

Explanations of culturally competent nursing care focus on recognizing a patient's individual needs, including language, customs, beliefs and perspectives. Cultural sensitivity is foundational to all nurses. "The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person," states the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics for Nurses.

Relevance

More than one-third (37 percent) of the U.S. population consists of individuals from ethnic and racial minority groups, and by 2043, minority groups will become the majority, according to research from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. However, nurses from minority backgrounds represent 19 percent of the registered nursing (RN) workforce. Men account for 9.6 percent of the RN workforce.

There is a "challenge presented by the health care needs of a growing number of diverse racial and ethnic communities and linguistic groups, each with its own cultural traits and health challenges," the NIH says. Nurses and other healthcare providers must account for these differences through cultural respect to support positive health outcomes and provide accuracy in medical research.

"The development of cultural competence in the nursing practice first requires us to have an awareness of the fact that many belief systems exist," says Lanette Anderson, executive director of the West Virginia State Board of Examiners for Licensed Practical Nurses. "The beliefs that others have about medical care in this country, and sometimes their aversion to it, may be difficult for us to understand. We must remember that we don't need to understand these beliefs completely, but we do need to respect them."

Developing Cultural Competence

Framework for Delivering Culturally Competent Services

Campinha-Bacote and Munoz (2001) proposed a five-component model for developing cultural competence in The Case Manager.

1. Cultural awareness involves self-examination of in-depth exploration of one's cultural and professional background. This component begins with insight into one's cultural healthcare beliefs and values. A cultural awareness assessment tool can be used to assess a person's level of cultural awareness.

2. Cultural knowledge involves seeking and obtaining an information base on different cultural and ethnic groups. This component is expanded by accessing information offered through sources such as journal articles, seminars, textbooks, internet resources, workshop presentations and university courses.

3. Cultural skill involves the nurse's ability to collect relevant cultural data regarding the patient's presenting problem and accurately perform a culturally specific assessment. The Giger and Davidhizar model offers a framework for assessing cultural, racial and ethnic differences in patients.

4. Cultural encounter is defined as the process that encourages nurses to directly engage in cross-cultural interactions with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds. Nurses increase cultural competence by directly interacting with patients from different cultural backgrounds. This is an ongoing process; developing cultural competence cannot be mastered.

5. Cultural desire refers to the motivation to become culturally aware and to seek cultural encounters. This component involves the willingness to be open to others, to accept and respect cultural differences and to be willing to learn from others.

Tips

Nurses should explain healthcare jargon to patients whose native language is not English, according to Monster contributing writer Megan Malugani. A breast cancer awareness program for U.S. immigrants demonstrated that women were too shy to say they didn't understood certain terms. Some assumed that Medicare and Medicaid were forms of cancer.

Many people from other cultures seek herbal remedies from traditional healers - and they can be harmful or interact poorly with Western medicine. Nurses should ask patients about any alternative approaches to healing they are using. Another example of cultural sensitivity involves nurses understanding the roles of men and women in the patient's society. "In some cultures, the oldest male is the decision-maker for the rest of the family, even with regards to treatment decisions," Anderson says.

The most important way for nurses to achieve cultural competency and promote respect, according to Anderson, is to gain the patient's trust for a stronger nurse-patient relationship. This requires sensitivity and effective verbal and non-verbal communication.

Pitfalls

Nurses should never make assumptions or judgments about other individuals or their beliefs. Instead, nurses can ask questions about cultural practices in a professional and thoughtful manner.

Common pitfalls to avoid involve stereotyping and labeling patients, according to Flowers.

Nurses should avoid unintentionally stereotyping a patient into a specific cultural or ethnic group based on characteristics like outward appearance, race, country of origin or stated religious preference. Stereotyping refers to an "oversimplified conception, opinion, or belief about some aspect of an individual or group of people," she says. Additionally, many subcultures and variations can exist within a cultural or ethnic group. For instance, the term Asian-American includes cultures such as Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese, and within these cultures, there are variations in geographic region, religion, language, family structure and more.

Nurses should be careful about labeling patients. For instance, citizens in the United States may refer to themselves as Americans, but that term can also apply to individuals from Central and South America. Flowers recommends referring to a person from the United States as a U.S. citizen.

Responding to Higher Standards in Nursing

More hospitals across the United States now require that nurses have a bachelor's degree. Rising educational standards are emphasized to increase the quality of care that patients receive. Alvernia University's online RN to BSN Completion Program is designed to improve patient outcomes and help nurses meet each patient's needs, including those unique to the patient's cultural background. The degree program takes place in a convenient online learning environment that accommodates students' work and personal schedules.

The RN to BSN Completion Program includes a class - NUR 318 Developing Cultural Competency & Global Awareness - which offers students "an opportunity to begin their lifelong journey to becoming culturally engaged." This course has existed at Alvernia University for more than a decade, and demonstrates how Alvernia is leading the way in preparing culturally competent nurses.

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A Guide to Culturally Competent Nursing Care

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The Effect of Peer Instruction on Promoting Student Nurses’ Learning

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60 Second Assessment

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Submitter Information

Author: Deborah Struth, MSN, RN
Title: Associate Director
Institution: Univeristy of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside School of Nursing
Email: struthdl@upmc.edu
Coauthors: Wendeline Grbach, MSN, RN, CCRN; Lizabeth Vincent, MSN, RN; Joyce Heil, MSN, RN and Cari Simpson, MSN, RN

Competency Category(s)
Safety, Teamwork and Collaboration

Learner Level(s)
Pre-Licensure ADN/Diploma

Learner Setting(s)
Clinical Setting, Skills or Simulation Laboratories
Strategy Type Learning Objectives
Teamwork and Collaboration:

K = Describe strategies for identifying and managing overlaps in team member roles and accountabilities.

S = Solicit input from other team members to improve individual, as well as team performance.

S = Function completely within own scope of practice as member of the health care team.

A = Value teamwork and the relationships upon which it is based.
Strategy Overview
First level students are introduced to crew resource management (CRM) principles in all four level one nursing courses. One of these principles is situation awareness, which is taught in Introduction to Nursing Practice Strategies (N102) via the 60 Second Situational Assessment. The purpose and directions to students are outlined on the attached tool. The assessment is taught in the laboratory practice section of the course and practices during clinical and during high fidelity human patient scenarios (HFHPS) which were developed around the concept of "noticing". The clinical faculty assigns each student one patient and gives the student up to 60 seconds to complete the Situation Assessment, at the same time the faculty completes the assessment on the patient. Findings between student and faculty are compared. After each individual assessment is completed, the instructor brings together all students, and each presents their situational assessments in SBAR format. The faculty facilitates a briefing using their assessment data to determine priorities for the student nurse "patient care team".
Submitted Materials 96.60_Second_situational_Assessment_Revision_4.doc Additional Materials Evaluation Description
Two cohorts of students (198 total) were divided into a study and a control group. The Wednesday clinical groups were not taught the situation assessment, but were given the CRM content and the Friday clinical groups were taught and practiced the 60 Second Situational Assessment over 12 weeks. In the final week (16) of the course, all students were taken to the simulation lab to participate in problem oriented HFHPS which were designed around patient/environmental observation or noticing. Students in the study groups initiated key assessments or interventions seconds to minutes faster that the control group. When N102 HPHFS data was compared to third level student nurse performance around time to assessment and intervention in the simulation lab, the third level students - who had neither CRM nor situation awareness education - did not engage or "notice" as quickly as either the control or study group.

Faculty and student satisfaction with this assessment tool is high and the tool has been adapted to the second level student and a prototype tool around Situational Assessment for Maternal Newborn Nursing is in development.

Please note this evaluation was developed as a performance improvement rapid cycle test of change using PI approaches.

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Author: Deborah Struth, MSN, RN Title: Associate Director Institution: Univeristy of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside School of Nursing Email: struthdl@upmc.edu Coauthors: Wendeline Grbach, MSN, RN, CCRN; Lizabeth Vincent, MSN, RN; Joyce Heil, MSN, RN and Cari Simpson, MSN, RN Competency Category(s) Safety, Teamwork and Collaboration Learner Level(s) Pre-Licensure ADN/Diploma Learner Setting(s) Clinical Setting, Skills or Simulation Laboratories Strategy Type Learning Objectives Teamwork and Collaboration: K = Describe strategies for identifying and managing overlaps in team member roles and accountabilities.

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