Learning Activities

Before you begin, please review the content on cultural competence. These learning activities will enable you to explore the case in greater depth and to exercise your skills in cultural competence through real life simulations.

Activity 1: The Inside Story
Jacqueline Strong, the Nursing Manager, has concerns about how nurse Christy Fitzgerald is relating to her Romani patients. This activity will enable you to see Christy’s original thoughts, and then the guidance that Jacqueline is able to give her.

 

Activity 2: Predicting Potential Impacts
In this activity you will analyze various conditions in this case and predict possible consequences that those conditions might have on Jacqueline, Christy and the Romani patients.

 

Activity 3: Understanding the Big Picture
In this activity you participate in a simulated meeting with Christy Fitzgerald. You will try to help her identify questions that might help her work more comfortably with Rose’s family.

 

Activity 4: Exploring Interventions

In this activity, you will participate in a simulated meeting between Christy and Todd, a member of staff development. Todd has engaged Christy in several discussions about cultural competence. He would now like to present Christy with some potential scenarios involving cultural differences and to assess Christy’s responses. He has asked you to join the meeting to help evaluate Christy’s responses. Click to indicate whether you agree or disagree with Christy’s intervention and see what Todd has to say.

After you have completed the content for this lesson you can take the quiz to finish the Core Concepts in Cultural Competence lesson.