This project to help new nurse recruits integrate into the hospital work environment had two components: the development of a new web-based orientation tool in French for new recruits and mentor training for more experienced nurses. The aim of the first component was to redesign delivery of the nursing orientation program by assessing individual needs of new recruits and developing "just in tim...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate students' academic and civic learning, with particular interest in cultural competence, gained through participation in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences in Zambia study-abroad program. METHOD Twelve female students participated in the program. Quantitative data collected included pre- and postprogram administration of the Public Affa...

Southeast Asian elders evacuated during the fall of Saigon in 1975, or who waited years in refugee camps before being reunited with their families in America, experience aging in stark contrast to their lifelong anticipation and positive expectations for the ''Golden Years.'' These elderly Southeast Asians must cope with their rapidly accultur-ating younger family members, while taking on diffe...

RÉSUMÉ. La langue française a toujours évolué dans des environnements plurilingues, en France et dans le monde. Être en contact avec d’autres langues n’est pas une situation linguistique exceptionnelle mais le français permet à un large ensemble de personnes de procéder à des échanges culturels, économiques et politiques internationaux. De ce fait le français est une langue de réseau. Le standa...

France officially the French Republic France is the largest country in Western Europe and the third-largest in Europe as a whole [1]. It possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world. It has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military, and political influence in Europe and around the world. Its estimated current population is around 65,350,000 . The French he...

Funding Thisworkwas supportedbygrants from theFédérationFrançaisedeCardiologie (FR). This study was supported in part by a grant from the Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique (PHRC National 2008) from the French government. The funding source had no role in the design and conduct of the study, in the datacollection, analyses, interpretation, or in the preparation, review or approval of t...

The purpose of this training program was to prepare nursing staff in family-centered geriatric care that emphasizes providing culturally competent care to hospitalized elders at two major tertiary hospitals in New York. This research report corresponds to the first phase of a 3-year project. In this research project, a descriptive exploratory design was used to identify the levels of cultural a...

This article addresses issues for child protection managers, such as hiring, program design, service evaluation, and policy development. It presents three frameworks for levels of organizational change: cultural sensitivity, which modifies existing services to better meet the needs of target populations; self-reflective cultural sensitivity, which calls for managers to be aware of personal and ...