A checklist to facilitate cultural awareness and sensitivity. (1/24)

United States of America demographic profiles illustrate a nation rich in cultural and racial diversity. Approximately 29% of the population are minorities and demographic projections indicate an increase to 50% by the year 2050. This creates a highly mobile and constantly changing environment, revealing the need for new levels of cultural awareness and sensitivity. These issues are particularly critical in the medical community where medical professionals must understand the impact cultural differences and barriers can have on evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation. During times of stress, such as when injury strikes, problems associated with lack of cultural sensitivity are intensified. Cultural diversity is of particular concern when standard measures for diagnosis and prognosis are derived from established norms for responding, because culture defines norms. This paper details a ten point checklist designed to facilitate cultural awareness and sensitivity in medical settings to ensure maximum successful recovery and outcomes for all patients.  (+info)

Duality in context: the process of preparedness in communicating with at-risk children. (2/24)

The goal of this study was to explore the cultural meaning of parent-child communication behaviors in inner-city children at risk for common behavioral problems. Following participation in a preventive intervention called Insights Into Children's Temperament, 40 parents of first and second-grade children were interviewed. The data were analyzed using a constant comparative method derived from grounded-theory techniques. Findings indicate that a complex communication process was used by parents with their at-risk inner-city school-age children. The immediacy of safety concerns for the child, the child's temperament, and the current parental state informed the choice of communication behaviors chosen by the parent. The ultimate goal of communication for these participants was to equip their children with tools to assist them to safely navigate their school and community environments. Participants also offered several recommendations that could be useful for practitioners and researchers to incorporate into their work with inner-city families.  (+info)

Mapping the literature of transcultural nursing. (3/24)

OVERVIEW: No bibliometric studies of the literature of the field of transcultural nursing have been published. This paper describes a citation analysis as part of the project undertaken by the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section of the Medical Library Association to map the literature of nursing. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify the core literature and determine which databases provided the most complete access to the transcultural nursing literature. METHODS: Cited references from essential source journals were analyzed for a three-year period. Eight major databases were compared for indexing coverage of the identified core list of journals. RESULTS: This study identifies 138 core journals. Transcultural nursing relies on journal literature from associated health sciences fields in addition to nursing. Books provide an important format. Nearly all cited references were from the previous 18 years. In comparing indexing coverage among 8 major databases, 3 databases rose to the top. CONCLUSIONS: No single database can claim comprehensive indexing coverage for this broad field. It is essential to search multiple databases. Based on this study, PubMed/MEDLINE, Social Sciences Citation Index, and CINAHL provide the best coverage. Collections supporting transcultural nursing require robust access to literature beyond nursing publications.  (+info)

Culturally responsive interventions to enhance immunosuppressive medication adherence in older African American kidney transplant recipients. (4/24)

CONTEXT: Immunosuppressive medication nonadherence is variable among older kidney transplant recipients and is a problem in African American recipients despite the severe consequences of this behavior. Many factors place older African American recipients at risk for medication nonadherence. OBJECTIVE: To provide an overview of interventions to enhance immunosuppressive medication adherence in older African American kidney transplant recipients using a culturally responsive model. Culturally sensitive, innovative, and transformation interventions are discussed. Situations when each intervention would be most and least appropriate are described. CONCLUSION: Moving culturally appropriate interventions forward into practice and testing their effectiveness in improving adherence outcomes in vulnerable, older African American kidney transplant recipients is a worthy practice and research goal for transplant nursing.  (+info)

First-generation Korean-American parents' perceptions of discipline. (5/24)

Nurses not only need to be familiar with professional guidelines of discipline and but also need to be aware of variances in styles of acceptable discipline across cultural groups. The goal of this study was to explore cultural influences in relation to (1) first-generation Korean-American parents' perceptions of common discipline strategies in the United States, and (2) discipline strategies commonly used among first-generation Korean-American parents. Inductive content analysis was used to analyze interview data from seven first-generation Korean-American parents. Derived themes indicated that parents considered spanking/hitting and less hugging/kissing as Korean style, and time-out, use of sticker charts, hugging/kissing, removing/adding privileges, and giving chores as American style. Recent immigrant parents were not familiar with common positive discipline strategies in the United States. As they adapted to mainstream society, they discontinued what they perceived to be negative aspects of Korean style and adopted positive aspects of American style. They were sensitive to children's views on discipline, and they experienced communication difficulties with children. These findings indicated that Korean-American parents' perceptions of discipline strategies were shaped by living in two cultures and were different from western viewpoints.  (+info)

The workings of a multicultural research team. (6/24)

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Negotiating three worlds: academia, nursing science, and tribal communities. (7/24)

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Ensuring cross-cultural equivalence in translation of research consents and clinical documents: a systematic process for translating English to Chinese. (8/24)

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