TraINErS-Project
AN INTERCULTURAL JOURNEY FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND HEALTH CARE.
Context
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Professional mobility has become an inherent feature of today’s global world. Mobility of the nursing profession as well as mobility in patient populations (Buchan et al. 2014; Buchan, et al. 2017; United Nations 2018) has led to cultural heterogeneity and language discordance (Stilwell et al. 2004). OBJECTIVES In order to respond to the growing intercultural communication needs, TraINErS –Training Intercultural Nursing Educators and Students–develops a theoretically sound (blended) training program consisting of internationally tested, validated as well as accredited online/mobile materials and longitudinal online support to train educators involved in the development of nursing students’ intercultural competences and skills. TraINErS will enhance encounters with diverse patient populations as well as prepare nurses to be(come) mobile professionals integrating in new sociocultural contexts. TraINErS will define a profile with intercultural competences and skills for educators as well as students to foster intercultural communication in healthcare and develop a tool to evaluate intercultural communication growth. Thus, the program will have an immediate effect on nursing students before/during/after an international exchange, but also address intercultural competence-at-home.
Participants
The development of profile, blended program and evaluation tool will culminate in two training activities (in the east and in the north of the EU) where educators and nursing students will collaboratively enhance their intercultural communication.
Activities
TraINErS will develop innovative learning opportunities in intercultural nursing communication by supporting nursing educators as well as students in acquiring and further developing the required skills and competences to become interculturally proficient professionals. TraINErS will first draw a reliable and validated profile of the Intercultural Nursing Educator (INE), since a study of the literature has shown that such a profile is not available and training is often not theoretically supported. The profile will be converted in an evaluative online/mobile instrument for educators to measure their own intercultural sensitivity growth and learning gain while undergoing blended training. Authentic and relevant materials will be responsibly designed and presented as part of a blended multimodal training program for intercultural nursing communication with online support culminating in an inservice training activity where educators will complete their earlier started online training and immediately apply it in sessions with international nursing students. Every step of the development process will be evaluated on a process and product level.