This document provides an overview of Module I Topic 2 which focuses on cultural awareness and acknowledging patients' diverse cultural identities. It discusses learning to be aware of other cultures and considering patients' needs and peculiarities. It includes videos about gestures around the world and too quickly judging people. It emphasizes that non-verbal communication such as gestures can have different meanings in different cultures and contexts. Caregivers should provide culturally competent care and be aware of patients' cultural beliefs and expectations. Competence involves thinking from the patient's perspective and understanding how culture influences communication.

1. MODULE I:
CULTURAL AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness of the culture of
others, acknowledgement of
clients/patients’ diverse cultural
identities

2. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities
In this topic, you will learn to be aware of the other’s
culture.
You will be more able to consider the other’s needs and
peculiarities.
Summary
Summary
Summary
Awareness of the other’s
Culture
Gestures around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks
REMEMBER
If you want to link with other, you should
consider both your and the other’s needs and
peculiarities. This latter is particularly true
when the relation involves people in special
needs!

3. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities
The following short-film teaches us that we shouldn't be
too quick to judge people. If we want to link with other,
we should consider both our and the other’s needs and
peculiarities, above all when the other is in special needs.
The touching short-video regards the “deafness” and the
specific communicative channel of deaf-people.
It includes two different level of analysis: an explicit and
realistic one, and a metaphorical one, just because
“deafness” can be a social illness, too.
Please, focus on the metaphoric meaning of “deafness”.
Thus, wonder yourself: “Who is the true “deaf” in this
video?”
Awareness of the other’s culture
Awareness of the other’s culture
Summary
Awareness of the other’s culture
Gestures around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks

4. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities
Watch the video Too quick to judge (3’ 42’’):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzn_AKN67oI
Awareness of the other’s culture
Summary
Awareness of the other’s culture
Gestures around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks

5. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities
Remember: people communicate across verbal or non-
verbal language. This latter is more important, above all
because it can have different meanings in different part
of the world.
Gestures around the world
Gestures around the world
Summary
Awareness of the other’s Culture
Gestures around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks

6. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities
People can communicate across verbal or non-verbal
language. This latter is more important, above all
because it can have different meanings in different part
of the world.
This matter is shown like a tour across gestures around
the world -- from the French sign for "drunk," to obscene
Brazilian gesturing, as well as the Bulgarian custom of
nodding to mean "no" instead of "yes”
Video is quite easy and funny and shows gestures have
an important cultural component
Gestures around the World
Watch the video Gestures around the world (2’):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCo3wSGYRbQ
Gestures around the world
Summary
Awareness of the other’s Culture
Gestures around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks

7. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities
The following graph shows how much the no-verbal
communication is important
Gestures around the World
Gestures around the world
Summary
Awareness of the other’s
Culture
Gestures around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks -Do you agree or disagree with the percentage reported on the
graph?
1)Write your opinion, 2)post it on the discussion-board and
3)compare it with the other fellows’ ones

8. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities
Caregivers should be able to provide a more culturally
competent, higher quality of patient care
Regarding to the elderly people’s care and the
relationship with them, being aware to theirs’ culture,
beliefs and expectations is really important.
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Summary
Awareness of the other’s Culture
Gesture around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks
Try to think as if you were in his/her shoes...
1-Write at least 5:
-what do I expect from my caregiver?
-what do I think about her?
-which are the emotions I feel for her?
2-Post you answers on discussion-board and wait for a
feedback

9. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities Watch the movie The Intouchables
Description
Based on a true story, Untouchables recounts the
unlikely friendship between an exceedingly wealthy
quadriplegic (rendered immobile by a paragliding
accident), and his impecunious caretaker (a streetwise
immigrant from Senegal).
In this sense, the film is a tale of two civitates, the refined
world of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where the well-coiffed-
and-coutured break from shopping with kir royales at Les
Deux Magots, and the rough-edged banlieue, the suburbs
of Paris where the gendarmerie refuse to go, or so it’s
said.
Untouchables is infectiously ebullient and delightfully
insouciant, a sentimental send-up of modern society and
an endearing testament to human resilience and
empathy
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Summary
Awareness of the other’s Culture
Gesture around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks
Watch the trailer The Intouchbales (1’51”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RqDiYnFxTk

10. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities
Please, follow the link below if you want get more
information about Cultural Aspects of Nursing
-In fact, the following slides concern some case-questions
and you are is called to provide the best answer, in line
with the basic concepts of cultural-awareness whose you
have already learned.
-Each of the best answers is explained, in order to push
other learning reflections
Tasks
Summary
Awareness of the other’s Culture
Gesture around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks
Follow the link titled: Cultural Aspects of Nursing
(19 slides)
https://www.slideshare.net/Jeannecolia5454/cultural-aspects-nursing
Cultural Aspects of Nursing: self-assessment

11. Module I: CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Topic 2: Awareness
of the others’ culture,
acknowledgement of
clients/patients’
diverse cultural
identities
1-List factors that influence communication,
distinguishing verbal and no-verbal language
2-For each, give a 1-5 point score (from 1-Minimum to 5-
Maximum) in order to value how each of them influences
the interpersonal communication
3-Post your list with the score on discussion-board
4-Read 2/3 entries of your fellow participants and provide
a feedback at least to one of them, tell if you agree or
disagree and why
5-After the received feedback, did you learn other aspects
that can influence interpersonal communication?
Tasks
Tasks
Summary
Awareness of the other’s Culture
Gesture around the world
Cultural Aspects of Nursing
Tasks