Cultural barriers and facilitators for transformative nursing curriculum transformation

Successful transformative nursing curriculum implementation can be sustained when the contextual culture is considered. However, implementing a transformative curriculum is met with macro-level challenges with implications for the nursing profession and particularly nursing education. Macro-level ch...

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Main Authors: Nthabiseng Ann Molise, Yvonne Botma, Deirdre Van Jaarsveldt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214139123000252
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description Successful transformative nursing curriculum implementation can be sustained when the contextual culture is considered. However, implementing a transformative curriculum is met with macro-level challenges with implications for the nursing profession and particularly nursing education. Macro-level challenges include the 4th industrial revolution, socio-political, economic, health trends, and cultural aspects. Inadvertently, culture seems to be an unexplored phenomenon regarding its influence on transformative nursing curriculum implementation. Therefore, the study was aimed at exploring congruency between Basotho culture and transformative nursing curriculum implementation. The intended objectives for this study were to identify the similarities between the Basotho culture and the student-centred approach, and also to establish the related stumbling blocks that impede CBC implementation.A qualitative explorative interpretative approach was used, and a Kawa model was adopted and adapted from clinical use to a data collection tool. The Kawa model uses a river metaphor to explore individuals’ socio-cultural interaction with society and the environmental factors which influence their life flow, therefore likened to educational flow. The adopted Kawa constructs are the ‘river flow’, ‘riverbanks’, ‘rocks, ‘driftwoods’ and ‘spaces’. The sample comprised 14 purposively selected nurse educators. Aligned with Kawa constructs, findings showed multiple subcategories and two themes, namely: ‘power’ and ‘cultural vitality’. The identified cultural barriers and facilitative aspects could be applied during transformative nursing curriculum implementation. Further research is recommended to co-construct a culturally conducive continuous professional development framework to support nurse educators to sustain a transformative nursing curriculum.
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spelling doaj.art-80bb7992e7934dcc8780015076aa0eec2023-06-14T04:33:15ZengElsevierInternational Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences2214-13912023-01-0118100550Cultural barriers and facilitators for transformative nursing curriculum transformationNthabiseng Ann Molise0Yvonne Botma1Deirdre Van Jaarsveldt2Corresponding author.; University of Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South AfricaUniversity of Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South AfricaUniversity of Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South AfricaSuccessful transformative nursing curriculum implementation can be sustained when the contextual culture is considered. However, implementing a transformative curriculum is met with macro-level challenges with implications for the nursing profession and particularly nursing education. Macro-level challenges include the 4th industrial revolution, socio-political, economic, health trends, and cultural aspects. Inadvertently, culture seems to be an unexplored phenomenon regarding its influence on transformative nursing curriculum implementation. Therefore, the study was aimed at exploring congruency between Basotho culture and transformative nursing curriculum implementation. The intended objectives for this study were to identify the similarities between the Basotho culture and the student-centred approach, and also to establish the related stumbling blocks that impede CBC implementation.A qualitative explorative interpretative approach was used, and a Kawa model was adopted and adapted from clinical use to a data collection tool. The Kawa model uses a river metaphor to explore individuals’ socio-cultural interaction with society and the environmental factors which influence their life flow, therefore likened to educational flow. The adopted Kawa constructs are the ‘river flow’, ‘riverbanks’, ‘rocks, ‘driftwoods’ and ‘spaces’. The sample comprised 14 purposively selected nurse educators. Aligned with Kawa constructs, findings showed multiple subcategories and two themes, namely: ‘power’ and ‘cultural vitality’. The identified cultural barriers and facilitative aspects could be applied during transformative nursing curriculum implementation. Further research is recommended to co-construct a culturally conducive continuous professional development framework to support nurse educators to sustain a transformative nursing curriculum.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214139123000252Nursing curriculumTransformative educationStudent-centered learningFacilitative cultureCultural barriers
spellingShingle Nthabiseng Ann Molise
Yvonne Botma
Deirdre Van Jaarsveldt
Cultural barriers and facilitators for transformative nursing curriculum transformation
International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences
Nursing curriculum
Transformative education
Student-centered learning
Facilitative culture
Cultural barriers
title Cultural barriers and facilitators for transformative nursing curriculum transformation
title_full Cultural barriers and facilitators for transformative nursing curriculum transformation
title_fullStr Cultural barriers and facilitators for transformative nursing curriculum transformation
title_full_unstemmed Cultural barriers and facilitators for transformative nursing curriculum transformation
title_short Cultural barriers and facilitators for transformative nursing curriculum transformation
title_sort cultural barriers and facilitators for transformative nursing curriculum transformation
topic Nursing curriculum
Transformative education
Student-centered learning
Facilitative culture
Cultural barriers
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