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Transcultural Nursing In Community: A Doctor Of Nursing Practice Project To Advance Nursing Education In Partnership With An Indigenous Community, Deb Shuhmacher

Theses and Graduate Projects

Through a culturally responsive partnership process, a doctoral project to advance nursing education on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota is presented. The collaborative partnership is explored across a dominant Western culture and an Indigenous tribal community. A lens of awareness for White dominant culture is explained in relation to building a partnership with a Lakota tribal community. Traditional Indigenous values of mutuality, reciprocity, honor, and respect are discussed as significant in building a partnership. The process of engaging Indigenous wisdom and respecting Indigenous self-determination is foundational for the partnership process. Dr Leininger's culture care theory …

Community Health Workers: Bearers Of The Light In Health, Healing, And Care, Jean M. Gunderson

Theses and Graduate Projects

Since the 1940's with the development of the community oriented Primary care model of sydney and Emily Kark that originated in Africa and was transposed to the United States, Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been integrated in community health activities. As individuals from the community intimately connected to its people and its cultural life-ways and meaning, they provide primary services and care as advocates, liaisons, educators, cultural brokers, and navigators; bridging multifaceted hanscultural constructs within systems. Thi increasing diversity of communities, the health inequities, and the call for culturally responsive care, reinforce the significance of understanding the practice of community …

The Caring Connection: Using Leadership Metis To Facilitate Community Outreach For Hospital-Based Nurses, Susan Rein Loushin

Theses and Graduate Projects

This presentation and poster describes advanced practice as a leadership process that links nurses working in a hospital setting with people in the neighborhood who are homeless. It gives voice to the experiences of nurses volunteering within the homeless community. There is documented evidence supporting the virtues of volunteerism and the effect on the target population. However, there appears to be a gap in the literature regarding the effect outreach projects have on the personal and professional lives of nurses volunteering their time in the community.

This DNP project .created opportunities and leadership for nurses to work as citizen professionals …