In July 2008, a grant was received from the California Endowment to develop cultural competencies for graduate nursing students. Titled Preparing a Culturally Competent Master’s and Doctorally-Prepared Nursing Workforce, this initiative will strengthen the focus on cultural competency in the national sets of standards for graduate nursing programs developed by AACN, specifically The Essentials of Master's Education for Advanced Practice Nursing and The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice. As a result of this effort, these documents will be significantly enriched to provide a more robust exposure to the concepts and knowledge base that will assure cultural competence in nurses prepared at an advanced level.
Key outcomes of this project will include:
- Convening an expert advisory panel of nursing educators and clinicians to develop a framework of expectations for master’s and doctoral students to achieve in the area of cultural competence. The panel includes the following:
Evelyn Calvillo, RN, DNSc (CHAIR): CSU, Los Angeles
Lauren Clark, RN, PhD, FAAN: University of Utah
Felicitas Dela Cruz, RN, DNSc: Azusa Pacific University
Marie Fongwa, RN, MPH, PhD: University of California, Los Angeles
Susan Kools, RN, PhD: University of California, San Francisco
John Lowe, RN, PhD, FAAN: Florida Atlantic University
Beth Mastel-Smith, RN, PhD: University of Texas, Tyler
- Developing a toolkit for graduate nursing faculty and students that includes case studies on cultural competency, a list of exemplar nursing programs that have successfully embedded cultural competency into their curricula, and a directory of websites and journal articles focused on this issue.
- Piloting a one-day cultural competency course for 18 graduate nursing faculty and clinicians in California using the new competencies and toolkit materials.
- Publishing all resulting materials on the AACN Web site and disseminating this work broadly to all nursing schools and colleagues in the fields of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy.
For further information on this project, contact Pam Malloy at: pmalloy@aacn.nche.edu
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