Current active course description (last updated 2025/26)
Nursing in a Multicultural Perspective
SYK2011
Current active course description (last updated 2025/26)

Nursing in a Multicultural Perspective

SYK2011
The course shall provide the student with insight and understanding regarding nursing in a multicultural perspective. A particular focus will be the development of an understanding regarding culturally sensitive approaches and intercultural communication in nursing, as well as how health and illness affect patients from different cultural backgrounds.
Lectures/online lectures are used to provide an introduction to the subject and highlight the syllabus. Group work is used to stimulate learning through shared reflection and discussions to achieve academic and personalgrowth on the part of students, as well as to raise awareness and understanding of people from different cultural backgrounds

The following courses must be passed before starting this course: All courses in the first academic year

SYK1010 Communication, psychology, pedagogy and sociology

PRA1026 Supervised practical training studies - Basic nursing, municipal health service

SYK2010 Practical nursing skills, part 2,

SYK2008 Pathology, disease theory and pharmacology,

SYK2009 Nursing people with acute, critical and chronic illnesses PRA2035 Supervised professional training studies - People with acute, critical and chronic illnesses, Part 1, Specialist health service.

The course must have been passed before the start of the eighth semester.

Knowledge

  • Have knowledge of multicultural societies and can describe cultural differences and similarities between people
  • Have knowledge of the importance of intercultural communication in nursing
  • Have knowledge of the status of the Southern Sámi and Lule Sámi people as indigenous peoples and their rights, especially in health and social fields
  • Have insight into how important cultural and language backgrounds are for patients’ understanding of health and disease, as well as the safeguarding of quality and patient safety
  • Have knowledge of the use of interpreters

Skills

  • Can apply and reflect on cultural skills and cultural understanding from a global health and disease perspective when assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing
  • Can acknowledge and reflect on the importance of human cultural backgrounds
  • Can reflect on intercultural communication in nursing
  • Can plan and assess the nursing needs of people from indigenous and minority backgrounds

General competence

  • Have knowledge and understanding of the Sámi people as a minority
  • Know about aspects of global health challenges in the nursing practice in an international perspective
  • Have acquired knowledge, skills and attitudes in order to deal with patients from different cultural backgrounds
  • Can reflect on being in culturally sensitive situations
No tuition fees. Semester fees and cost of course literature apply.
Compulsory

Norwegian Bokmål:

Lectures/online lectures, group work and seminars.

No supervised professional training.
Oral presentation of group work. The assignment is posted using Canvas.
All examination support materials are allowed

Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:

SYK2002 - Nursing in a Multicultural Perspective - 3 credits