Transcultural Nursing
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Perspectives on transcultural care.

29 Nov 2009 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, ... Read more...

Building communities through performance: emerging approaches to interculturality.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: Changing definitions of culture are modifying approaches to intercultural education and training. This paper outlines the principal features of these emerging models for innovation and capacity building in communities. METHODS: Semiotics ... Read more...

Banks multicultural model: a framework for integrating multiculturalism into nursing curricula.

29 Jun 2009 The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has recommended that more minorities be represented in the health care workforce and that cross-cultural education be included in all health care programs (Betancourt, J.R., & Maina, A.W., 2004). Although nurse ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Transcultural Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perspectives on transcultural care. 29 Nov 2009
• Nurse to volunteer in Ecuador. 30 Jul 2009
• Reaping the benefits of a treaty of Waitangi workshop. 30 Jul 2009
• Supporting international nurses in their practice. 30 Jul 2009
• From South Africa to Reefton- one nurse's jouney. 30 Jul 2009
• Dementia, ethnicity, and culture. 30 Jul 2009
• Building communities through performance: emerging approaches to interculturality. 30 Jul 2009
• Banks multicultural model: a framework for integrating multiculturalism into nursing curricula. 29 Jun 2009
• Essential tools for a study abroad nursing course. 29 Jun 2009
• A world of difference. 29 Jun 2009
• Teaching ethics in religious or cultural conflict situations: a personal perspective. 29 Jun 2009
• Incorporating patients' spirituality into care using Gadow's ethical framework. 29 Jun 2009
• Lived religion: implications for nursing ethics. 29 Jun 2009
• Religion, bioethics and nursing practice. 29 Jun 2009
• Preface to thematic section: religions, spirituality, ethics and nursing. Religion: overturning the taboo. 29 Jun 2009
• Standards of practice for culturally competent nursing care: a request for comments. 29 Jun 2009
• When family means more (or less) than genetics: the intersection of culture, family and genomics. 29 Jun 2009
• Jewish laws, customs, and practice in labor, delivery, and postpartum care. 29 Jun 2009
• Building a kaupapa Maori service. 30 May 2009
• What do we need to know about the culture-bound syndromes? 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Transcultural Nursing'

Definition: A nursing specialty created to answer the need for developing a global perspective in the practice of nursing in a world of interdependent nations and people. The focus of this nursing discipline is on the integration of international and transcultural content into the training. Courses include study in the area of cultural differences, nursing in other countries, and international health issues and organizations, as an example.

Descriptor UI: D016746

Alternative terms: Transcultural Nursing; Nursing, Transcultural;

Related Mesh Headings: Ethnopsychology; Cultural Competency;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.478.676.920;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: specialty; on an international or cultural level only; coordinate IM with nursing specialty (IM) if pertinent + culture or ethnic group (IM) if pertinent; specify geography; consider also CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DF: TRANSCULTURAL NURS