Nurturing cultural awareness needs to be explicitly addressed in undergraduate nurse curricula

Abstract

Commentary on : Hultsjo S, Bachrach-Lindstrom M, Safipour J et al . ‘Cultural awareness requires more than theoretical education’ – Nursing students’ experiences. Nurse Educ Pract 2019;39: 73–79. [Epub ahead of print 31 Jul 2019]. Changes in global migration trends have resulted in a widening sociocultural diversification of the patient population globally. However, the growing reports of gaps in care for culturally diverse patients are concerning.1 Consequently, nurse educators are increasingly challenged to ensure culturally competent graduates and that cultural competence development is explicitly addressed in …