CSI Prof Garners Transcultural Nursing Awards
January 14, 2008
A nursing professor at the College of Staten Island has recently
received recognition for her work in Transcultural Nursing.
Transcultural nursing is a formalized area of study focused on
assisting individuals, families, groups, and communities maintain or
restore health, deal with disabilities, dying, or other human
conditions in beneficial ways consistent with the clients’ cultural
values, beliefs, and health practices.
Last December, Dr. Marianne Jeffreys was selected as consultant of
the month by the National Center for Cultural Competence and, last
September, the Transcultural Nursing Scholars of the Transcultural
Nursing Society (TCNS) selected her for induction as a Transcultural
Nursing Scholar.
Jeffreys received the latter honor following the
selection of her latest book, "Teaching Cultural Competence in
Nursing and Health Care: Inquiry, Action, and Innovation" as a
2006 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year.
According to the TCNS organization’s philosophy statement, "[t]he
purpose of the TCNS Scholars is to recognize persons who have
demonstrated exemplary creative leadership by advancing
transcultural nursing and health care research, education, practice
and/or administration [italics in original] within local, national,
or global contexts.” The group’s purpose “is to promote the
advancement of a body of knowledge, initiate and disseminate
research, teaching and learning, and the clinical applications of
transcultural nursing and health care globally."
Commenting on these achievements, Jeffreys says, "Receiving this
recognition for my past work in transcultural nursing research,
education, and service motivates me to expand my cultural competence
research, teaching endeavors, publications, workshops,
presentations, and consultations."
Presently, Jeffrreys is engaging in multiphase, grant-funded
research with co-investigator Dr. Enis Dogan (American Institutes
for Research, Washington, DC) entitled "Evaluating Students’
Transcultural Self-Efficacy Perceptions and Cultural Competence
Following an Integrated Approach to Cultural Competence Education."
The underlying purpose of the study is, according to Jeffreys "to
facilitate cultural competence education and to promote culturally
congruent health care to the increasingly multicultural society of
the 21st Century.”
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For more information visit:
www.mariannejeffreys.com
