FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE OF NURSING

COURSE OUTLINE

Course Title: NCM 122 – Decent Work Employment and Transcultural Nursing
Course Code: NUR1223
Course Description: This course will present theories, concepts, beliefs, and standards related to care of a
clients with cultural diversities. It aims to examine the influence of culture on beliefs, values, and practices
in relation to health illnesses and health seeking behavior of individuals across the lifespan, groups, and
organizations. It also intended to develop the fundamentals rights of the human person in terms of work
safety and remuneration, physical, and mental integrity in exercise of his/her employment.
.
Course Credit: 3 units (54 hours; [1.5 units Transcultural nursing and 1.5 unit decent work and
employment])
Placement: 4th Year Second Semester
Pre-requisites: none

Course Expected Learning Outcomes: (CELO):

1. Recognize the importance of transcultural nursing in caring for a client with different practices, beliefs,
values and cultural needs and apply critically apply necessary skills in ensuring work safety and
remuneration
2. Integrate nursing process in the application of decent work employment and transcultural nursing to
ensure a safe, quality, and evidence-based care in in managing a client with different healthcare needs
across different countries
3. Develop an excellent communication skills using inter and intrapersonal skills in managing clients with
diverse cultural needs and co-workers considering safety needs.
4. Practice nursing in accordance with existing laws, legal, ethical, and moral principles of healthcare
locally and globally
5. Engage in lifelong learning with a passion to keep current with national and global developments of
having a healthy and decent work environment in research and in the clinical settings

Week Learning Strategies

Assessment
Topics
Classroom TA
1 Academic Health Break

2 Part 1: Transcultural nursing A. Interactive discussion A-3H A. Online

A. Transcultural caring  Sharing of Quiz
dynamics in nursing and experiences
health care
 Models of transcultural
nursing
 Transcultural caring
ethics
 Transcultural context
 Universal sources
 B. Globalization in nursing B. Interactive discussion B&C B. Graphic
 Globalization health  Journal readings -3H organizer
issues and its effect in
3 health care
 Concepts of caring
 Concept of culture

C. Multiculturalism C. Interactive discussion C. Online

 Multicultural self Quiz
 Paradigms and ways
of knowing in a
cultural worldview

D. Transcultural nursing in D. Interactive discussion D-9H D. Rubrics

4-6 practice/caring  Journal readings for group
experiences presentation
 health care beliefs,  Group presentation
values, practices and
health care systems
across Asia
 health care beliefs,
values, practices and
health care systems
across Western Asia
and the Middle East
 health care beliefs,
values, practices and
health care systems
across Europe
 health care beliefs,
values, practices and
health care
 systems across North
America
 Health care values,
practices and health
care systems across
Africa
7 E. Essence of Caring E. Interactive discussion E-3H E&F.
 Dimension of the  Library work Rubrics for
model: Essence of (journal reading) reflection
caring (love,
empathy,
authenticity,
compassion, co-
presence, availability,
attendance, and
communication)
 Ray’s Transcultural
communicative
spiritual-ethical
caring tool for
cultural competency
(compassion,
advocacy, respect,
interaction,
negotiation, and
guidance

8 F. Transcultural caring F. Interactive discussion F-3H

ethics  Reflection
 Dimension of the model:
Essence of caring
(knowing what is good,
commitment/trust,
respect, fidelity,
integrity,
beneficence/nonmalefice
nce, justice/truth,
autonomy, human rights,
cultural rights, and rights
of nature).
 Search for ethical
understanding
 Universalism and
relativism in transcultural
ethics
9 Midterm Exam 3H Summative
1 (Paper and
pencil test)
Part 2: Decent Work A, B&C. Interactive discussions AB& Online Quiz
Employment C-6H
11-12
A. OVERVIEW: History of
Global efforts to improve
worker health
B. The Healthy and Decent
Workplace
C. Global and local Legal
Policies of healthy and
decent workplace (within
and between institutions
and cultures)
 14&1 D. Interventions and D&E. Interactive discussions D&E Online Quiz
5 evidences of healthy and  Journal readings - 6H
decent workplace  Round table discussion
E. Process on how to create
a healthy and decent
workplace

16-17 F. Decent work and F. Interactive discussions F- 6H F. Podcast

employment (5-10
 Watch Gender equality minutess)
F.1 Decent Work and decent work for
 International labor nurses: the 2021 ILO
organization (ILO) webinar
decent work agenda
 Decent work and the  Interview either a staff
sustainable nurse, nursing leader,
development goals policy maker/Human
 Gender equality and Resource management, or
discrimination recruitment agency
F.2 Employment
 Recruitment and
qualification
 Labor migration
 Salary/Wages
 Injury compensation
and insurance

Final Exam 3H Summative

Exam (Paper
and pencil
test)

Grading Requirements:

Formative Assessment (60%) Summative Assessment (40%)

 Online Quiz  Midterm Examination
 Online Presentation  Final Examination
Online submission
 Reflection
 Graphic organizer
 Pod cast

References:

a. Textbook
Ray, M. (2010). Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Health Care. F. A Davis
Company

b. Websites:
Burton, A. (2010). World Health Organization (WHO) Healthy Workplace Framework and
Model: Background and supporting literature and practices. WHO Healthy Workplace
Framework and Model: Background and Supporting Literature and Practices
Campinha-Bacote, J. (2010). The Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare
Services: A Model of Care. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, Vol. 13 No. 3, July 2002
181-184
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2016). Workplace Health Model.
https://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/model/index.html
Curtis, M., Bultas, M. and Green, L. (2016). Enhancing Cultural Competency. Online Journal of
Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare. Vol. 6 No. 1DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.9730/ojccnh.org/v6n1a1
Giger, J.N. and Davidhizar, R. (2002). The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment
Model. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Vol. 13 No. 3, July 2002 185-188. Retrieved from
http://tcn.sagepub.com/content/13/3/185.refs.html
Ingram, R.R. (2011). Using Campinha-Bacote’s Process of Cultural Competence Model to
Examine the Relationship between Health Literacy and Cultural Competence. Journal of
Advance Nursing. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05822.x
International Labour Organization (2021). Advancing Social Justice, Promoting Decent Work.
https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/decent-work/lang--en/index.htm
Jeffrey, M. and Dogan, E. (2010). Factor Analysis of the Transcultural Self-Efficacy Tool (TSET).
Journal of Nursing Measurement. Volume 18, Number 2, 2010.
Official Gazette (2002). Republic Act No. 9173. Philippine Nursing Act of 2002. Republic Act No.
9173 | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines
Purnell. L. (2005). The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence. The Journal of Multicultural
Nursing and Health 11:2, Summer, 2005.
Wikberg, A. and Erickson, K. (2008). Intercultural Caring: An Abductive Model. Scand J Caring
Sci; 2008; 22; 485–496. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2007.00555.x

Wiskow, C., Albreht, T., & de Pietro, C. (2010). How to Create an Attractive and Supportive
Working Environment for Health Professionals.
https://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/model/index.html
World Health Organization (2021). Keep health workers Safe to Keep Patient Safe.
https://www.who.int/news/item/17-09-2020-keep-health-workers-safe-to-keep patients

c. Videos:
International Labor Organization (2022). Social protection at the crossroads:
https://youtu.be/dR4iC6wwt2k
Nursing now challenge (2021). Gender equality and decent work for nurses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNb_OsPMBCo