Most members of the Jehovah's Witness community refuse blood transfusions, and there are variations in what alternatives they will accept depending on their personal decisions. To provide culturally competent care, healthcare providers need to be knowledgeable about substitutions for blood administration as well as the risks and benefits of available alternatives so that they can inform their p...

AIM The aim of this paper is to highlight the need to integrate cultural care into dental hygiene practice. BACKGROUND Culture can be better understood through the concepts, beliefs, and norms of the culturally diverse population of the United States. It is important to understand cultural perceptions of oral health in order to manage transcultural barriers that may arise during the utilizati...

Culture—the way people make meaning and live their lives in particular social worlds—matters in psychosis. Culture affects the risk that someone will fall ill with psychosis. It influences its course and outcome, as well as who has access to care and to what kind of care. Culture affects not only the way others interpret unusual sensory experiences associated with the illness, but also the way ...

Childbirth is a relevant happening in a woman's life, as it is a unique moment for the mother-child binomial. This study aimed at understanding the factors that interfere in the experience lived by childbearing women. Seven women who gave birth through normal childbirth in a public maternity in Fortaleza-Ceará participated in the study. Data were collected from June to August, 2003. Ethnonursin...

Culture fundamentally shapes how individuals make meaning out of illness, suffering, and dying. With increasing diversity in the United States, encounters between patients and physicians of different backgrounds are becoming more common. Thus the risk for cross-cultural misunderstandings surrounding care at the end of life is also increasing. Studies have shown cultural differences in attitudes...

More effective strategies for addressing health issues in African American communities are needed. As part of a three year NIH funded Project Export grant, this communitycampus partnership used community-based participatory research principles and the PEN-3 Cultural Framework to develop a culturally specific, locally relevant intervention to prevent Diabetes among African-Americans. A comprehen...

Social service agencies and practitioners are continually challenged to provide services that are effective for, and reflective of, cultural and religious diversity. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 50 social work practitioners in four Canadian cities to gain insight into methods of practice that are culturally sensitive for work with Muslim clients. No hard-and-fast rules are identif...

Online Journal of Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011 ABSTRACT The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to discover African American women‟s lived experiences of receiving primary health care from nurse practitioners. Leininger‟s culture care theory was used as the organizing framework for this study. Eleven African American women who were receivi...

To the editor. Student pharmacists in countries where English is used for on-campus instruction but is not the national language may face difficulties when it comes to effectual communication with patients during experiential learning in clinical settings. Having effective communication skills is one of the traits of professionalism, and is not only one of the core competencies in becoming a be...