BZMV061 Multicultural Education in Emergency Care

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0.5/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Vlasta Vařeková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Michal Pospíšil
Department of Health Sciences – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Michal Pospíšil
Supplier department: Department of Health Sciences – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites
Completion of the course of Nursing.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The subject is conceived as a theoretical base for the Multicultural Education in Emergency Care. It introduces multicultural and transcultural dimension of care for individual needs of a clients. The student will be able to: - use properly the terms – ethnicity, culture, spirituality, belief, religion - know basic characteristics of chosen ethnic, cultural and religious group - adapt the nursing process of clients considering their ethnic, cultural and spiritual specifics
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to understand the cultural differences of the clients,
to respect their demands,
to understand the needs of the Roma minority, to be able to correctly use the terms - ethnicity, culture, spirituality, faith, religion; selected ethnic, cultural and religious groups,
will be able to adapt the nursing process of clients with respect to their ethnic, cultural and spiritual specifics.
Syllabus
  • The Importance of Transcultural - Multicultural Nursing, K.M.
  • Defining culture, ethnicity, society, common and different characters.
  • Changes in society from the point of view of cohabitation of the majority and minority groups.
  • Culture and ethnicity in interpersonal relationships in the family.
  • Cultural and ethnic dimensions of health, disease, death. Rituals.
  • Multicultural Society - Implications for Medical / Nursing Services.
  • Multicultural Society in the Czech Republic.
  • Ethnocentrism and its consequences in the care of the client, his family and community. means of facilitating intercultural communication.
  • Spiritual life of man - content, meaning, selected religious directions and their rules regulating the behavior of their members of society. Significant religious rituals.
Literature
    required literature
  • IVANOVÁ, Kateřina, Lenka ŠPIRUDOVÁ and Jana KUTNOHORSKÁ. Multikulturní ošetřovatelství 1. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2005, 248 s. ISBN 8024712121. info
    recommended literature
  • Etnické komunity : v kulturní a sociální různosti. Edited by Dana Bittnerová - Mirjam Moravcová. Vyd. 1. Praha: FHS UK, 2010, 314 s. ISBN 9788087398081. info
  • Současná problematika východoasijských menšin v České republice. Edited by Ivona Barešová. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2010, 126 s. ISBN 9788024426457. info
  • RYŠLINKOVÁ, Markéta. Česká sestra v arabském světě : multikulturní ošetřovatelství v praxi. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2009, 123 s. ISBN 9788024728568. info
  • ŠPIRUDOVÁ, Lenka. Multikulturní ošetřovatelství 2. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2006, 248 s. ISBN 802471213X. info
Teaching methods
Interactive lectures, discussion, group work, audiovisual presentation.
Assessment methods
Type of completion: colloquium - 100% presence in practise lessons, activity, defense case reports
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 7.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
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