Multicultural Approaches from Pregnancy to Postpartum

Occurrence: 2023/24 - 2S

Courses

Hours Actually Taught

10CMESMO

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students)

Integrates knowledge, understanding and problem-solving skills in situations related to the multicultural complexity of maternal and obstetric health, in the contexts where the target clients of care are found, acting in accordance with the legal norms and ethical and deontological principles of the profession.¿¿
Assesses health care needs to implement culturally safe strategies, based on communication patterns that value the diversity of beliefs and behaviors in health.
Mobilizes scientific evidence in the development of culturally safe praxis, adopting intra and extra-institutional networking strategies.

Syllabus

Intercultural communication with women inserted in the family and community
Awareness, Knowledge and Cultural Skills for the preparation of Meetings with the woman/couple/family and target group (women of childbearing age) in the context where they are found.
Ethnocentrism and Ethnorelativism and health care in the intercultural communication process
Strategies for prevention and resolution of cultural clashes and conflicts, in the intervention of women inserted in the family and community
Intercultural mediation as a tool in family and community contexts
Health literacy in culturally diverse women/couples/family and target group
Culturally safe care settings
Culturally receptive Health Units

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives

The master's student is expected to frame the intervention of the health professional to the woman inserted in the family and community, taking as a focus of attention the ethnic and cultural specificities, managing the risks and benefits in health oriented in scientific evidence, in order to ensure the quality of the professional exercise.
It is intended to prepare master's students for the specificity of meetings in their cultural diversity, either due to the language barrier or the mutual lack of knowledge of ethnic and cultural characteristics between those who care and who are cared for. The intervention strategies mobilized, contribute to the prevention and resolution of cultural shocks and conflicts and promote culturally safe care in women inserted in the family and community.
The development of the different strategies learned promotes the coherence of professional practice, in a multi- and interprofessional approach, taking into account the national reality.

Teaching methodologies (including evaluation)

Theoretical and theoretical-practical teaching, in a theoretical-conceptual approach to the different themes, combined with individual and small group work in the classroom and in fieldwork. The following strategies will be used: reading and analysis of texts; analysis of problems related to practice and reflexivity in action.

Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and the learning outcomes

The defined objectives are expected to be achieved through the different teaching methodologies implemented, which promote the active participation of the master's student in the teaching and learning process, for the development of critical-reflective thinking based on a set of scientific knowledge. 

Bibliography (Mandatory resources)

Mateus, C., Oliveira, E., Marante, S., Capucho, S., Ladeira, S., Cordeiro, R. A., & Calha, A. (2020). Transculturalidade, uma realidade nos cuidados de saúde. SAÚDE&SOCIEDADE, 1-8.
Moita, M. A. G., & Silva, A. L. (2016). Modelos de Competência Cultural: Uma análise crítica. Pensar Enfermagem, 20(2), 72-88.
Nunes, M. L., & Ramos, N. (2011). Cuidar em Contexto de Diversidade Cultural. Representações e Vivências do Corpo em Diferentes Culturas. RECIIS, 5(4), p.70-86.
Reis, A., Saboga-Nunes, L., Spínola, A., Santos, I., & Santiago, C. (2019). Communicating with migrants: children¿s health literacy, digital technology, health promotion tools. European Journal of Public Health, 29(Supplement_4), 183-184.
https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz185.491
Santiago, C., Figueiredo, M. H., & Basto, M. (2020). Meanings attributed by migrant women to nursing care during pregnancy to postpartum. Rev ROL Enferm, 43(1), 146-153.
https://e-rol.es/rol_2020/IC_RESEARCH_INNOVATION_DEVELOPMENT_NURSING_2019.pdf