Fatuma Kotile
Inver Hills Community College, USA
Biography
Fatuma Kotile is a Nursing College Professor in Minnesota USA and also work at Bethesda Health East Hospital in St Paul MN. Fatuma Kotile has experience
and passion in cultural competency in nursing education and health site practices. Her practice model and teaching in cultural competency are based on Lininger‘s Transcultural Nursing Model. Her goal is to increase diversity within nursing programs and help the program to learn, understand, and accommodate nursing students’ with mental health issues. She also assists her Oromo community from East Africa to confront the reality of mental health through workshops and outreach activities. The workshop aim is to increase understanding of the meaning and expression of culture care for older Oromo women living in the United States. This information is a valuable tool for community nurses to understand the background of Oromo cultural health practices and their views about health and illness. In addition, she is also an advocate for healthcare cultural competency when assisting patients who undergo a mental health crisis. Lastly, Fatuma is an enthusiastic learner who strives to understand how members of the community cope and move past their difficulties through healthy dialogue and methodologies.
Abstract
Abstract : Building a village among Oromo East African women struggling with sadness in a large urban setting