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Diversity increase presents challenges and opportunity for those who provide the opportunity in health care and the health system at large. This hinders the adoption of culturally competent services. The article by Levey, J. A. (2019), titled ” Teaching Online Graduate Nursing Student’s Cultural Diversity from an Ethnic and None-Ethnic Perspective’’. This article presents a study to highlight how the Nursing programs are trying to adjust to the ever alternating patients’ need.
The article title is very relevant concerning issues that are discussed because it tries to specify how the nursing fraternity can positively benefit through online teaching. The article, it’s brief and precise abstract, presents a study to assess some changes in cultural practices within the nursing programs. The article, in its abstract, further describes the objectives of the research and methodology applied, the outcome, and the conclusion drawn on the effects of online teaching for graduate nursing students as the strategy to cultural diverseness.
The article introduction articulates the advantages of nurturing the awareness by culturally, applying global statistics of the present mixed population of the United States. The two objectives are adequately and well defined. The first being to measure the student’s nurse perception regarding the cultural competency within their daily nursing practice. The second is being in a position to identify the best teaching strategy through online sources as an essential process that will enhance cultural diverseness.
In the article, the research questions are not well articulated. Instead, the information in the background is used to reveal the challenges which the research seeks to address. The theoretical framework which was used for the study was designed based on a course development try to measure the domains within the culture for the ethnic and none-ethnic population in the United States, focusing only on Asian Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and blacks. The study presents the evidence from various literature pieces which are related to the curriculum assessment, which include the online educational trends used within the nursing programs to incorporate the diversity within the culture at the graduate level
The study methods and design are well documented. The study used a quasi-experimental type of approach; the study process included both pretest and posttest measurements. The sampling process is highlighted, including the two instruments used for data collection. These are, Culturally Congruent value for Advanced Nursing Course with Learning Objectives scale and the Cultural Assessment for competency for Participants. Using the two ranges, respondents were required to rate the level of agreement using a 5 point scale.
The article further presents the analysis data process, which includes measuring and also working out all the statistics which are descriptively using the statistic deviation method. The study results reveal nursing graduates can increase their cultural competency skills through online teaching. The discussion further supports the research outcomes pressing reasons why students prefer online platforms. One big reason being, online learning allowed them to exchange, dialogue, and also discuss ethnic and non-ethnic cultures.
In the article, some other study limitations were presented, one of them being that the study assignments were not well standardized, and the sampling process was utterly biased. The study failed to indicate the changes in culture awareness, behavior, practices, and sensitivity for both nursing educators and nursing practitioners.
In the article, there were no well-elaborated facts concerning how to deal with cultural diversity based on the fact that the United States population is rising, and the nurses are the minority. Nurses are needed to provide natural congruent care in the community, which is underserved. The article lacked cultural competency and sensitivity regarding the opposition, which is the nursing students. According to the article, one can quickly reveal that most respondents in the article could be the people who are not culturally competent. The article lacked correlation between the online study and the school’s cultural competence score and the amount of minority student who is being recruited to join the BSN program yearly. The article failed to recommend the nursing faculties to mostly engage in the activities which could help them enhance their cultural competencies. It was unable to solve the cultural problem from its source. This article by Levey did not give a clear guideline on how to curb cultural diversity.
The conclusion much emphasized the need to design a professional course related to cultural competencies as a more elaborate standard teaching guide for nurse graduates to improve the interaction between nurses and patients from diverse populations, which keeps on increasing each year. I would rate the research evidence at the second level. This is because of its inconsistent in its findings. As the results are not adequately generalizable. Despite these limitations, I can use the conclusions and recommendations because the study offers better insights on how to measure cultural competency attributes among graduate nurses.