Background: Many countries are becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse due to globalisation and migration. The global shortage of nurses and the consequent migration of nursing professionals is leading to increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in health care and nursing education. Nurse educators play a significant role in supporting nursing students' competence and working life readiness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To describe nurse leaders' experiences of how culturally and linguistically diverse registered nurses integrate into healthcare settings.
Design: A qualitative descriptive study design.
Participants: A total of 13 nurse leaders were recruited from four primary and specialized healthcare organizations in Finland.
Aims: This study aimed to identify mentors' cultural competence profiles at mentoring culturally and linguistically diverse nursing students in clinical practice and explore associating factors.
Background: Globalization has had a significant impact on healthcare, increasing the diversity of healthcare workforces and the number of culturally and linguistically diverse nursing students in clinical practice. The cultural competence of mentors is important to secure students' safe and successful learning.
Aim: To describe nurse educators' views of how culturally and linguistically diverse future registered nurses are integrated into healthcare settings.
Design: A qualitative descriptive design was adopted.
Participants: A total of 20 nurse educators were recruited from three higher education institutions in Finland.
Background: The international mobility has increased cultural diversity in social- and health care. As such, ethical and cultural competence is an essential skill among educators. They are promoting the ethical and cultural competence and professional growth of students with diverse backgrounds and, therefore, must be ethically and culturally competent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The nursing shortage is a global and ongoing phenomenon that is expected to worsen. In many countries, imbalances in the nursing workforce will require international recruitment and plans to increase domestic and international nursing graduates. Nurses from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds have been reported to experience challenges while integrating into the workforce.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: The aim of this umbrella review was to establish recent evidence on integration strategies and models to support transition and adaptation of culturally and linguistically diverse nursing staff into healthcare environments.
Design: Umbrella review conducted according to Joanna Briggs institute guidelines.
Data Sources: Data were collected from CINAHL, PubMed, Medic, ProQuest and Scopus electronic databases in 2021.
Background: Social and healthcare operating environments are constantly evolving, so educators have major responsibility for ensuring that Evidence-Based Healthcare is included in the education of future healthcare professionals and applied in their practice. A holistic understanding and implementation of evidence-based healthcare competence is critical to the delivery of appropriate, relevant, and effective healthcare.
Aim: To identify and describe social and healthcare educators' EBHC competence according to the five main components of the JBI model and associated factors to it.
Aim: The purpose of the study was to identify and describe the characteristic profiles of evidence-based practice competence of educators in the social, health and rehabilitation sectors and to establish relevant background factors.
Design: This study was carried out as a descriptive cross-sectional study.
Methods: Data were collected from social, health and rehabilitation sector educators working in the 21 Finnish universities of applied sciences and seven vocational colleges (n = 422; N = 2,330).
Background: In Finland, children spend a lot of time outdoors in winter. Outdoor recreation in winter has a wide variety of effects on children's well-being. Although children are a subgroup that is vulnerable to cold exposure, remarkably little research has been done on the subject.
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