Synopses & Reviews
The delivery of health care in any context is dependent upon the communication between the individuals who are involved. This innovative new text is designed to help nursing students excel in the increasingly complex, multicultural health care workplace. The goal of this practical text is to help students overcome their cultural biases and develop the skills and techniques they will need to communicate effectively and compassionately with patients and health care providers from other cultures. Eliciting assessment data and cultural preferences and teaching about procedures, hospital policy, and home care to patients and families from other cultures are just a few of the valuable communication techniques covered in this invaluable text.(communication, multicultural, cultural, transcultural, minority, international, communication skills)
Synopsis
Transcultural Communication in Nursing, Second Edition, is designed to help learners and practicing professionals increase their self-awareness by recognizing possible biases and becoming more sensitive to cultural differences. This new edition gives examples of exchanges between the nurse and patients who hold various cultural values and beliefs. Latinos, Hispanics, Muslims, Hasidic and Reform Jews, Filipinos, Native Americans, and African Americans are just some of the ethnic and religious groups whose traditions are explored.
Synopsis
This introductory text provides the skills and techniques required to assess and care for patients from diverse backgrounds. In the increasingly complex, multicultural health care workplace, it is imperative that workers have the ability to communicate effectively with others whose lifestyles, traditions, and values may be different from their own. This text enables readers to identify their own cultural biases and provides the opportunity to overcome these biases while developing the skills and techniques required to care for patients from all backgrounds.
About the Author
Capital UniversitySchool of Nursing, University of Washington
Table of Contents
1: Introduction to Transcultural Communication in Nursing 2: Transcultural Communication Building Blocks: Culture and Cultural Values 3. Enhancing Transcultural Communication Through Culturally Competent and Linguistically Appropriate Services. 4. Transcultural Communication Building Blocks: Beliefs, Behavior, and Communication 5. Transcultural Communication Stumbling Blocks 6. Transcultural Communication Within The Health Care Subculture 7. Exploring Transcultural Communication as a Participant-Observer 8. Using Transcultural Communication Techniques 9. Overcoming Transcultural Communication Barriers 10. Working With and Without an Interpreter 11. Eliciting Assessment Data From the Patient, Family, and Interpreters 12. Developing Culturally Appropriate Nursing Diagnosis 13. Using Transcultural Communication to Plan Care, Explain, and Instruct 14. Using Transcultural Communication to Assist People responding Pain, Grief, Dying, and Death 15. Fostering Transcultural Communication with other Health Care Providers