Nurturing compassion and cultural humility in health professions students through a brief mindfulness practice.

Objective: Given the importance of compassion and cultural humility in healthcare providers, the study aspired to investigate the effects of a brief mindfulness practice on compassion and cultural humility in health professions students.

Methods: A quantitative, one-group pre-test/post-test study was conducted with 58 participants from undergraduate health profession education programs in the United States. Participants completed questionnaires measuring mindfulness, compassion, and cultural humility before and after engaging in an eight-minute loving-kindness meditation exercise three to four times per week for two weeks.

The Relationships Between Cultural Humility, Therapeutic Communication, and Intercultural Communication in Health Professionals.

Effective healthcare communication involves therapeutic communication and intercultural communication, which may be achieved through the practice of cultural humility. A correlational study with 103 health professionals from a hospital network located in the Midwestern United States was completed. The participants completed Foronda's Cultural Humility Scale, the Global Interprofessional Therapeutic Communication Scale Short Form, and the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale.

Character Strengths and Ethical Engagement in Online Faculty.

In this study, the researchers investigated the relationships between character strengths and ethical engagement in online faculty. One of the ethical duties for higher education faculty is to engage in effective teaching practices. As online higher education becomes increasingly popular, online faculty also bear this duty.