TEACHING STRATEGIES PLAN

Field trips: Integration of cross- cultural awareness

through hands on training.
NAME OF LEARNING
ACTIVITY
Learning Activity
Summary

The focus of this strategy will be for students to be acquainted

in the community to several centers. These would include:
Wellness centers, community health education, clinics in rural
communities, and senior centers. Groups of 5 students will
each be assigned a center and will rotate to each one over the
semester. The clinical experiences will culminate with a written
2 page reflection of their experiences.
Cognitive (identify level): Understand, Apply, Analyze,
Evaluate

Domain of Learning
(Blooms Taxonomy
Affective: Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organization, and
Revised)
Characterization.
Psychomotor: Perceptual
Student-Centered
At the completion of this learning activity, the learner will:
Learning Objective(s)
Engage in critical reflection of their own values, beliefs, and
cultural heritage and how these qualities can impact
culturally congruent nursing care.
Use cross cultural knowledge and culturally sensitive skills in
implementing culturally congruent nursing care.
Preparation Required Facilitators need to make sure that field trips are objective
by Teacher/Facilitator and driven, and that they will require a considerable amount of
Materials Needed
planning in advance. The students schedules will need to be
made out prior with dates, times, and sites that they must visit.
Also, approval of those sites must be in writing by the Director
of Nursing, and the clinical sites directors. Transportation must
also be addressed, code of conduct, clinical uniforms. Several
instructors will need to be available to accompany the students
to these sites.

Time Allotted

6 hour clinical day

30 minute post discussion

Learning Styles
Addressed by Activity

Sight, Sound, Verbal, Active, Holistic

How is content connected Additional clinical experience is needed to complement what

to prior learning?
students are learning in the classroom. Cross cultural practice
involves a complex combination of knowledge, selfawareness, assessment skills, for the basis of planning care on
and individual and global scale.
Reflective Debriefing Debriefing will occur in post conference so that students can
with Learners (post- discuss and share ideas and resources for meeting the needs of
learning activity) How will culturally diverse populations and integrating global health
it be accomplished?
awareness with those populations.
Evaluation of Learning Learning will be evaluated during post conference and
(How will it be
students reflection of their experiences.
accomplished?)
Teacher Reflection

Arranging for students to visit the centers provides them with

the knowledge and skills that can be universally applied to all
(justify choice of learning areas of the world. Global health nursing encompasses all areas
activity and good fit for of care such as clinical practice, research, education, and health
the identified learning assessment.
objectives)