| Title | Perspectives on transcultural care. | | Author(s) | Bjarnason D, Mick J, Thompson JA, Cloyd E | | Institution | Ben Taub General Hospital, Quentin Mease Community Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA. dana_bjarnason@hchd.tmc.edu | | Source | Nurs Clin North Am 2009 Dec; 44(4):495-503. | | MeSH | Attitude to Health
Codes of Ethics
Cultural Characteristics
Cultural Competency
Cultural Diversity
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Models, Nursing
Nurse's Role
Nurse-Patient Relations
Patient Advocacy
Philosophy, Nursing
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Professional Competence
Transcultural Nursing
Trust
United States
| | Abstract | Culture has been defined as the thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups. A culture of nursing refers to the learned and transmitted lifeways, values, symbols, patterns, and normative practices of members of the nursing profession of a particular society. To serve the unique and diverse needs of patients in the United States, it is imperative that nurses understand the importance of cultural differences by valuing, incorporating, and examining their own health-related values and beliefs and those of their health care organizations, for only then can they support the principle of respect for persons and the ideal of transcultural care. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
Review
| | PubMed ID | 19850185 |
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