Britains rapid increasing diverse population and culturally sensitive care is becoming an important part of nursing midwifery care, hence the need to explore level student nurses skills cultural diversity nursing. In order provide patients with adequate appropriate holistic nurse must recognise differences in how ethnic groups cultures view health sickness. Qualitative descriptive research meth...

Mindfulness meditation and other techniques drawn from Buddhism have increasingly been integrated into forms of psychotherapeutic intervention. In much of this work, mindfulness is understood as a mode of awareness that is present-centered and nonevaluative. This form of awareness is assumed to have intrinsic value in promoting positive mental health and adaptation by interrupting discursive th...

Although representation of physical environments and behaviors will continue to play an important role in simulation-based training, an emerging challenge is representation of virtual humans with rich mental models (e.g., including emotions, trust) that interact through conversational behaviors as well as physical ones. The motivation for such simulations is training soft-skills such as leaders...

This paper discusses the promotion of critical thinking through an interdisciplinary curriculum design using multidisciplinary faculty as well as details the implementation of an experiential short-term study abroad program in China. To achieve this educational goal of critical thinking, along with meeting the requirements specific to each course, the program was built on a framework using two ...

The aim of the paper is to describe the knowledge of mothers in Durban, South Africa, regarding risk factors of hearing loss in infants and their awareness of audiology services, and to describe their cultural beliefs about the risk factors for hearing loss in infants. A descriptive survey design with quantitative methods of analysis were used. Conveniently sampled mothers (n=102) receiving pos...