Strengthening Cultural Competence in Prenatal Care With a Virtual Community: Building Capacity Through Collaboration.

Unlabelled: The purpose of this project was to design, implement, and evaluate a virtual simulation experience (VSE) facilitating student access to diverse cultures and strengthening their ability to provide culturally congruent care.

Design: Faculty from two universities collaborated in designing a pre/postnatal VSE with African American and Amish patients. Students viewed patient assessments, interacted with patients, worked in teams to develop culturally appropriate care plans, and engaged in debriefing.

Transcultural self-efficacy perceptions of baccalaureate nursing students.

Addressing the health care needs of a 21st-century nation that is experiencing increased diversity and disparity will require new models of educating future providers. The cultural competence and confidence model was the guiding framework in a study evaluating the influence of cultural educational offerings on the transcultural self-efficacy (TSE) perceptions in baccalaureate nursing students. The Transcultural Self-Efficacy Tool was used to measure perceived TSE in a pretest (N = 260), posttest (N = 236) study over an academic year.

DSM-5: historical perspectives.

The first major attempts to categorize psychiatric disorders in the United States occurred in the mid-1800s, when census data were collected that included "insanity" and "idiocy" of household members. In Europe, Florence Nightingale promoted the use of non-fatal disease classification for morbidity and treatment in 1860. By the late 1800s, Kraepelin categorized disorders, and his sixth edition of the Compendium der Psychiatrie was widely adopted by both Europeans and Americans.