Nursing Student Engagement in Cultural Humility Through Global Health Service Learning: An Interpretive Phenomenological Approach

Nursing Student Engagement in Cultural Humility Through Global Health Service Learning: An Interpretive Phenomenological Approach

Alicia Sedgwick
Stephanie Atthill

Description

Global Health Service Learning (GHSL) trips were taken by nursing students to low-resource countries to develop cultural humility. Through interview and surveys, the article outlines how the students experienced GHSL, how the students developed cultural humility, and how ethnocentricity affects intercultural relationships. They found that students, while originally disoriented by the differences in their culture, gained an awareness and appreciation for differences in culture and learned to become more sensitive by accommodating their care to the patients' needs and wants.