Our lives are filled with lessons. Each of us takes from our encounters with family and friends and patients deeper understandings with which we can make sense of the complexities of our personal and professional lives. These understandings enrich us all. I present here six lessons I learned during my tenure in 1994 as a visiting professor and senior Fulbright Scholar in the Family Medicine Res...

In a globalised world, cultural diversity is a challenge for everyone. Even for those staying “at home” cultural diversity enters their daily lives by people migrating from other regions of the world, sharing their social world. While intercultural encounters pose a great enrichment to one’s experiences and perspectives, they also represent an immense challenge, confronting us with different la...

The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) believes that cultural competence is a critical factor in providing quality cancer care to an increasingly diverse patient population (ONS, 1999). Nurses and their interdisciplinary colleagues should be educated comprehensively to foster sensitivity and responsiveness to issues of diversity. ONS (1999) issued guidelines and identified four components of educat...

Introduction: Transcultural nursing education is often neglected within nursing curricula and inclusion within curricula may be haphazard. Little is known about nursing students’ views on transcultural nursing education. There is a lack of research examining how nursing students are prepared in university and practice settings for nursing in a multicultural society. Objective: To examine nursin...

The overall aim of this thesis is to explore, analyze and clarify how cultural competence is understood. This is explored from the perspective of nurses, nursing students, nurse educators, and nurse researchers in relation to the Swedish care context. The field of transcultural nursing and cultural competence was founded in the United States in the 1950s in response to an increased awareness of...

The Swedish preschools have evolved to be more diverse in terms of language and culture amongst the attending children. Previous research on newly arrived children focusses on, other things, how provide for best reception or education, but less is known about children’s own communicative ways when they start preschool. aim this paper explore entering a new linguistic environment are able partic...

The scripting of sexual encounters among young people in Kenyan is described using results of 28 focus group discussions conducted with young people attending primary school standard 7, from four different ethnic groups and living in 22 different communities. Sexual encounters were described as both mundane and inevitable and followed a predetermined scripted sequence of events and interactions...