Cross-cultural care encounters in paediatric care: minority ethnic parents’ experiences

Parents' experiences of their child's admission to paediatric intensive care.

BACKGROUND Admission of a child to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) may be one of the most stressful events for parents because the outcome is often uncertain. So how do parents cope, and how can we as nurses help them? AIM To explore the lived experiences of parents whose children have been admitted to a PICU. METHODS Using Heidegger's school of interpretative phenomenology, six u...

Palliative Care, Cancer and Minority Ethnic Communities

Mixed messages: residents' experiences learning cross-cultural care.

PURPOSE An Institute of Medicine report issued in 2002 cited cross-cultural training as a mechanism to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care, but little is known about residents' training and capabilities to provide quality care to diverse populations. This article explores a select group of residents' perceptions of their preparedness to deliver quality care to diverse populatio...

ETHNIC REVIEW Access to health care for ethnic minority populations

This paper reviews the research evidence on access to health care by ethnic minority populations, and discusses what might need to be done to improve access to services. Research on the process of care, and the quality of care received, is considered as well as studies examining uptake of services. Changes in legal context are increasing the pressure on healthcare organisations to examine and a...

'You need that loving tender care': maternity care experiences and expectations of ethnic minority women born in the United Kingdom.

OBJECTIVE To explore the maternity care experiences and expectations of United Kingdom (UK)-born ethnic minority women. METHODS Qualitative in-depth interviews with 34 UK-born mothers of Black Caribbean, Black African, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Irish descent, recruited mainly from nine National Health Service (NHS) maternity units in England. RESULTS Overall, women felt that their ...