ONE Overview of Key Issues and Concerns with contributions from Kevin Antoine Educators everywhere are challenged to learn how to lead the quest for culturally congruent health care by implementing…
THREE A Model to Guide Cultural Competence Education The Cultural Competence and Confidence (CCC) model presents an organizing framework for examining the multidimensional factors involved in the process of learning…
TWO Dynamics of Diversity: Becoming Better Health Care Providers Through Cultural Competence Diversity awareness will be most comprehensive if one recognizes the diversity of diversity and how various characteristics of…
FIVE A Guide for Interpreting Learners’ Transcultural Self-Efficacy (TSE) Perceptions, Identifying At-Risk Individuals, and Avoiding Pitfalls Making sense of transcultural self-efficacy (TSE) perceptions must be grounded in self-efficacy theory, follow…
12 Reintegration: Creating a New Normal The general sentiment among the nurses was that, over time, they came to embrace “a new normal.” They felt changed after deploying to war….
6 Painful Memories of Trauma Many nurses could not get the chaotic scenes of wartime trauma out of their minds. Their reintegration experiences were haunted by the memories of horrific…
10 Military Unit or Civilian Job: Support Versus Lack of Support Some nurses were welcomed back with coworkers listening to their stories with empathy, interest, and compassion. A few told…
8 Needing a Clinical Change of Scenery A clinical change of scenery may be a change in geographic location or a change in one’s nursing role or a change in…
3 Homecoming: A Positive Reception Homecoming was usually anticipated as a positive experience for most of the military nurses. However, communication between deployed personnel and their family and military unit…
