Cultural competence in the undergraduate nursing curriculum.

More demands are being put on nursing faculty to incorporate content related to cultural competence in the undergraduate curriculum. Adding more content into an already full curriculum and becoming proficient at teaching cultural competence throughout the curriculum are challenging to nursing faculty. In addition, identifying personal bias to ensure that students are prepared to deliver culturally sensitive care requires a certain amount of self-awareness of personal prejudice.

Strengths and weaknesses of faculty teaching performance reported by undergraduate and graduate nursing students: a descriptive study.

The purpose of this study was to describe the patterns of strengths and weaknesses of faculty teaching performance as reported by undergraduate and graduate nursing students on a narrative section of a university faculty evaluation form. The study used a descriptive, retrospective, qualitative design. The summary forms represented a convenience sample of undergraduate and graduate nursing course sections (N = 317) taught by full-time and part-time nursing faculty from spring 1998 through fall 2002, including summer sessions.