{"id":117988,"date":"2020-05-11T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=117988"},"modified":"2020-08-07T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T22:09:09","slug":"son-transcultural-symposium-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/11\/son-transcultural-symposium-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing students train to tackle language, religion barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_118008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118008\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hilo-nursing-transcultural-communication-2.jpg\" alt=\"patient and nurses in hospital room\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hilo-nursing-transcultural-communication-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hilo-nursing-transcultural-communication-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hilo-nursing-transcultural-communication-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The School of Nursing Symposium showed short video skits with strategies for handling transcultural barriers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/depts\/nursing\/\">School of Nursing<\/a> (<abbr>SON<\/abbr>) scrambled to move its 16th annual Transcultural Nursing Symposium to a virtual format in March in the midst of the pandemic. The event showcased the foundational framework <abbr>SON<\/abbr> instills in its students to have a broad understanding of the various cultures in healthcare environments.<\/p>\n<p>According to <abbr>SON<\/abbr>, communication barriers that encompass everything from language to religious practices can lead to decreased care quality and even patient harm.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is crucial to train students in transcultural nursing so that they may provide culturally competent care,&rdquo; said <abbr>SON<\/abbr> Professor <strong>Katharyn Daub<\/strong>. &ldquo;Understanding many different cultures increases the nurses&#8217; awareness of caring for others of diverse cultures.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During the symposium, students were shown short video skits highlighting strategies nurses utilize when they encounter a number of barriers. One of the skits featured steps a nurse took to find a way to communicate with a patient that spoke primarily in Japanese.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_56710\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SfIFSapBgPc?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Nursing students face language barrier obstacle\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><abbr>ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ<\/abbr> Hilo nursing students create skit about language barrier obstacles.<\/div>\n<p><abbr>SON<\/abbr> students were also shown videos about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-cP5vmO1sC8&#038;feature=youtu.be\">religious barriers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MqP-9S8Diag&#038;feature=youtu.be\">stereotyping<\/a>. The skits were put together by senior nursing students <strong>Gregory Zukeran<\/strong> and <strong>Shantel Bolosan<\/strong> and featured student actors from the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/depts\/performingarts\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ<\/abbr> Hilo Performing Arts Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the symposium, <abbr>SON<\/abbr> students completed evaluation questions and 84 percent indicated feeling better prepared to serve diverse populations and implement culturally congruent communication.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By <span aria-label=\"Moanikeala\">Moanike&#699;ala<\/span> Nabarro<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Transcultural Nursing Symposium, students were shown short video skits highlighting strategies nurses utilize when they encounter a number of barriers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1411,1419,189,839,14,56],"class_list":["post-117988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-online-instruction","tag-nursing","tag-school-of-nursing","tag-uh-hilo","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117988"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124457,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117988\/revisions\/124457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}