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Understanding Cultural Diversity: Culture, Curriculum, and Community in Nursing

Author(s): Mary Lebreck Kelley, MSN, MEd, RN, Cooperative Nursing Program - Elizabeth General Medical Center - School of Nursing and Union County College
Virginia M. Fitzsimons, Kean University of New Jersey, Union, New Jersey
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763711061
  • ISBN-10:0763711063
  • Paperback    384 pages      © 2000
Price: International Sales $82.95 US List
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The authors seek to uncover the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of the teaching-learning experience and the dynamics of curricular responses to changes within our society. They recognize the central role of faculty in delivering instruction in ways that are most understandable to culturally, gender-, and age-mixed groups of students. Faculty members must strive to understand and implement teaching styles and techniques that will best provide their students with a rich and challenging education.

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A remarkable journey into the cultural underpinnings of the mosaic of American pluralism, and its effect in the classroom and community.
Insights into relatively new cultures, including homelessness and cyberspace.
Presentations of sucessful and unsucessful attempts in addressing cultural diversity in the curriculum.

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1. Ethics and Culture: From the Claim That God Is Dead, It Does Not Follow That Everything Is Permitted
   Florence G. Sitelman and Robert Sitelman

2. Psychology and Culture 
  Lucy W. Bennett and Dennis R. Finger

3. Beyond Values Clarification: A Civic Ethic for Public Discourse and Education 
    Leland J. White

4. Teaching Pluralism: Values to Cross-Cultural Barriers 
   David M. Bossman

5. Managed Care: What, Why, Where, and Whither Thou Goest? 
  Fred C. Smith, Jr.

6. Reengineering and the Corporate Culture 
  Carol A. Fasano

7. Cyberspace: The New Culture 
  Catherine M. Boss

8. Unknowing: Toward Another Pattern of Knowing in Nursing 
   Patricia L. Munhall

9. The Internationalization of Higher Education 
   David M. Gibson

10. Bringing Diversity into the Curriculum: Successes and Problems 
    Frank Naughton

11. Primary Care, Education, and Research Integration: A Vehicle for a Culture of Health
     Fran Quinless

12. Culture Learning and Unlearning: Creating a Culture Supporting the Development of Transcultural Nurse Managers 
     Susan W. Salmond

13. A Dream Realized: An African American Woman's Experience 
    Sandra Seals McQueen

14. Revisiting the Men's Health Curriculum 
    David Anthony Forrester

15. What Is a Freshman? Helping Faculty Relate to the Freshman Culture 
    Henry L. Kaplowitz

16. Holocaust to Be Taught in the Schools of New Jersey
     Rose Thering

17. Externship - Moving Real Life into Professional Life
     Mary L. Kelley

18. The Many Faces of Homelessness
      Paula Dunn Tropello

19. A Walk in Beauty: Strategies for Providing Culturally Competent Nursing Care to Native Americans 
    Karen A. Joho and Anne Ormsby

20. The Filipino American Culture: The Need for Transcultural Knowledge
              Virginia Villanueva and Anunciacion S. Lipat

21. Hispanic Client Satisfaction with Home Health Care: A Study of Cultural Context of Care 
   Dula F. Pacquiao, Ludovina Archeval, Ellen E. Shelley

22. Rituals, Culture, and Tradition: The Puerto Rican Experience
     Ruben D. Fernandez and George J. Hebert

23. A Challenge to the Puerto Rican Community: An Untold Story of the AIDS Epidemic 
    George J. Hebert and Ruben D. Fernandez

24. The Asian Indian American Experience: Diversity and Difference 
    Karen Verni-Moosvi

25. Profile of a Church-Based Tutorial/Enrichment Program 
    Betty W. Barber

26. Minority Men's Health: A Review of the Literature with Special Emphasis on African American Men 
    David Anthony Forrester

27. Adolescents with Cancer: A Struggle to Understand a New Way of Living 
        Kathleen Neville

28. The Married Couple: In Loss, Grief, and Transition
     Robert T. Tobin

29. Aging: A Culture of Changes and Growth 
    Virginia M. Fitzsimons

30. Our New Century Leaders: A Culture of Learning 
     Katherine Macken

31. Of Tugboats, Transitions, and Time
      Mary L. Kelley and Virginia M. Fitzsimons

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Mary Lebreck Kelley, MSN, MEd, RN-Cooperative Nursing Program - Elizabeth General Medical Center - School of Nursing and Union County College

Virginia M. Fitzsimons-Kean University of New Jersey, Union, New Jersey

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  • 3 Stars - "This text offers much to faculty and students desiring a deeper understanding of cultural diversity. It differs from other works on cultural diversity in that it reflects lessons learned from the TLC project. Further, it points to the potential for greater societal unity based on an increased understanding of this important subject."
    --JoAnn D. Long, RN, MSN
    Lubbock Christian University
    Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal, Jan/Feb. 2000

     

    "Understanding Cultural Diversity is an excellent book that takes cultural diversity into a new context and into current waters.  All levels of students and nursing professionals can utilize this book when seeking to practice more culturally relevant care."  

    --Minority Nurse, Summer 2000 

    "The editors' basic premise is that understanding cultural diversity is essential in the worlds of today and tomorrow.  Also, they assert that in nursing, as in other areas of education, understanding diversity needs to be embedded in the entire curriculum and not simply added on.  Finally, diversity and the curriculum can be best understood not only as an academic endeavor but also how it plays out in the community through nursing practice. . . .this book stands by itself as a fine contribution to understanding the many relationships that exist when cultural diversity is adopted as a value in curriculum and community.  Chapters of this book can be used selectively with undergraduate and graduate students as well as with faculty members." 

    --Journal of Transcultural Nursing, October 2000 

    "This is a very thought provoking text. . .one that all academic and health science libraries should have in order to challenge not only students but instructors and faculty." 

    --AIDS Book Review Journal, September/November, 2000

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