Date
12-4-2025
Department
School of Nursing
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)
Chair
Cindy Goodrich
Keywords
cross-cultural, cultural competence, cultural humility, nursing, nursing education
Disciplines
Nursing
Recommended Citation
Gazan, Lisa Orme, "Nurse Educators’ Experiences Teaching Culturally Sensitive Care to Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study" (2025). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 7709.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/7709
Abstract
The purpose of this qualitative, transcendental phenomenological study is to investigate how nurse educators in American undergraduate nursing schools define culturally sensitive care and how they are integrating the concept into the undergraduate nursing curriculum as outlined by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The theory guiding this study was Dr. Madeleine Leininger’s culture care theory developed to prepare the nurse to discover and provide culturally congruent care to complex human beings. Interviews were conducted of a purposive convenience snowball sample of 12 undergraduate nurse educators who have taught for a minimum of 1 year in the setting of a prelicensure associate or bachelor’s nursing degree school in the United States and who have taught within the last 5 years. The triangulation of data was met through the collection of a variety of data which included individual interviews, follow-up journal questions, and a focus group of four educators. Analysis for patterns and themes were systematically identified using manual coding and Moustakas’s approach. The results included four major themes identified through the data analysis of the participants’ lived experiences, including (1) intrinsic motivation to teach the concept of culturally sensitive care, (2) curricular integration is needed, (3) intentional conversations, and (4) tensions and barriers.
