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Haitian And American Nursing Students' Knowledge Of Child Life Concepts, Colleen Rosen Jan 2016

Haitian And American Nursing Students' Knowledge Of Child Life Concepts, Colleen Rosen

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Many medical professionals and students around the world are unaware of the role of child life specialists. This study was done to enhance the awareness of the role and to determine whether there were cultural differences in current knowledge about child life specialists in the U.S. compared to Haiti. Scores on a child life specialist knowledge test were compared among nursing students across the two cultures. Additionally, a teaching intervention was conducted with the Haitian nursing students aimed at improving knowledge about the profession. Thirty-three Haitian students and 42 U.S. students participated in this study. The results indicated that nursing …