In Queensland, Aboriginal nurses are limited in number in comparison to the mainstream nursing workforce. More Aboriginal registered nurses are needed to cater for Aboriginal patients in our Australian healthcare system in view of today's burgeoning Indigenous health crisis. It is a foregone conclusion that Aboriginal nurses are the most suitable nurses to provide optimal cross cultural care fo...

With the unprecedented growth in the African American elderly population, there exists an urgent need to prepare nurses to deliver culturally competent care. The purpose of this study was to increase the knowledge available about the cultural heritage, worldviews, and life experiences of African American elders. Reminiscence interviews were conducted with African American elders living in a med...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the experience of Filipino patients with cancer. RESEARCH APPROACH Hermeneutic phenomenologic inquiry using focus groups. SETTING A comprehensive cancer center in the southeastern United States. PARTICIPANTS 18 female and 5 male Filipino patients aged 34-78 years who had received cancer treatment. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Seven focus groups, each lasting two h...

In recent years, the population of foreign nationals and individuals from diverse cultural, racial, ethnic, and linguistic populations has consistently increased in Japan. An apparent failure by the health care workforce to deliver culturally congruent health care services has resulted in dissatisfaction with the health care system on the part of foreign nationals and increased potential for ne...

BACKGROUND Many of the approximately 15 million people with a migration background living in Germany (19% of the population) are inadequately reached by existing healthcare provision. In the literature, the necessity for cultural adaptation of information material for patients with a migration background is often cited as a measure for improving healthcare.In this study, culturally sensitive in...

Personnel shortages are evident for a number of disciplines in the health professions, from physicians to nurses. Project CRISTAL (Collaborative Rural Interdisciplinary Service Training and Learning) was designed to immerse students in rural and reservation communities and encourage them to consider practicing in locations that have shortages of health care providers. Students gain an understan...