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International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience | ISSN: 1522-4821 | Volume: 20
July 25-26, 2018 | Vancouver, Canada
Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing
14th World Congress on
Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Building a village among Oromo East African women struggling with sadness in a large urban setting
Fatuma Kotile
Inver Hills Community College, Inver Groves Heights, USA
Older Oromo women who immigrated to the United States in the early 1990s have undergone several stressful life events
including war, famine, acculturation, harsh cold climates, a new language barrier with English, and a variety of lifespan
experiences alien from those in their native country, Ethiopia. Coping with these new stress triggers correlates with a high
level of depressive symptoms that Oromo people call “sadness.” The purpose of this project is to create and disseminate
a transcultural model of nursing practices in a community that aims to alleviate sadness among older Oromo women by
promoting and fostering community building through means of healthy life choices in the midst of change. A praxis approach
guided by Madeleine Leininger’s theory of culture care diversity and universality was used in reviewing the literature in creating
and sustaining the community culture care model.
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.
Fatuma Kotile, IJEMHHR 2018, Volume: 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C3-018