Introducing Transcultural Nursing Education: Implementation of Transcultural Nursing in the Postgraduate Nursing Curriculum

Transcultural concepts in nursing care.

This text provides a comprehensive framework for providing culturally competent nursing care to individuals, families, groups, communities and institutions. We begin with a synthesis of transcultural theories, models, and research studies. It is our intent to provide transcultural knowledge that can be useful in nursing care. The text actually began in 1989 as a collegial effort by novice trans...

Proposed Standards for Transcultural Nursing

Core curriculum for transcultural nursing and health care.

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing, the TCNS, and SAGE have collaborated to publish a new concept in journals publishing, a Core Curriculum for Transcultural Nursing and Health Care. The Core Curriculum is the culmination of many years of research, drawing from the fields of social and behavioral science, philosophy, and nursing to establish a core of knowledge that supports transcultural nur...

Evasions in Interactions: Examples from the Transcultural Nursing Research Field

Transcultural qualitative research is known for its utility in eliciting in-depth narratives, resulting in increased understanding about cultural phenomena. However, sometimes specific phenomena in the researcher’s inquiry are ignored, evaded, or denied; or a seemingly crucial experience demonstrating society’s unfairness, which the researcher had been expecting, does not emerge. In this paper,...

Madeleine Leininger and the Transcultural Theory of Nursing