F.A. Davis Company

Here’s a unique approach to understanding the ever-changing dynamics among cultures and to building a transcultural caring relationship between the professional and client. This new model reflects how globalization, mass communication, and technology are affecting cultures in today’s world and how cultures are influencing one another.

• Transcultural Awareness and Caring in Nursing/Health Care model explores…Transcultural Caring Dynamics • Ethical Principles • a Transcultural Context • Universal Sources and • a Personal Cultural and Decision-Making Foundation.
• Assessment and planning tools include…Culture-Value Conflict • Ray’s Transcultural Communicative Caring and •Transcultural Advocacy Planning.
• Self-awareness tools help the nurse understand personal beliefs and how they influence the assessment and care planning for the patient.
• Case studies illustrate concepts and provide learning activities to help readers master the technique of transcultural assessment and caring.
• Consistently organized chapters feature…chapter objectives • chapter summaries • study questions •references and • a bibliography.

1. Conceptual Model and Applications
   1. Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Health Care
   2. The Essence of Caring
   3. Transcultural Caring Ethics
   4. Transcultural Context for Transcultural Nursing
   5. Universal Sources
   6. Transcultural Caring Inquiry: Awareness, Understanding, and Choice
2. Transcultural Caring Experiences
   7. Transcultural Caring Competency in Transculturally Dynamic Communities
   8. The Border and Pueblo: An American Mexican Cultural Experience
   9. A Vibrant African American Community: The 49ers and the Quest for Justice
   10. The Story of a Guatemalan Mayan Farmworker
   11. The Transcultural Social and Health Experience of an Asian Indian Widow
   12. The Cultural, Health Care, and Intermigration Experience of a Filipino Nurse
   13. Transcultural Diversity Within Unity in Jamaica: Out of Many, One People
   14. Cuban American Transcultural Experiences and the Quest for Freedom in the United States
   15. Puerto Rican Transcultural and Health Beliefs in a Western New York Community
   16. The Nurse Manager in a Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and the Organizational Complexity of a Hospital Culture
   17. Haitian Family’s Health Experience and the Public School System
   18. Elderly Native American Navajo’s Health Experience in the Nursing Home Culture
   19. The Transcultural Caring Experience of a Haitian Girl and a Nurse Practitioner in an  Adolescent Correctional Facility
   20. The Heart of Suffering, Mourning, and Healing in the Jewish Spiritual Culture: A Mother’s Story
   21. The American Chinese Transcultural Maternal-Child and Family Experience in China
   22. Extending Hands: Transcultural Caring in Saudi Arabia
   23. American Nurses and the Native People of Ecuador: The Transcultural Experience of Shamanism
   24. The Culture of Physical, Mental, Spiritual, and Political/Sociocultural Illness: Healing Through Education and Love
   25. The Political-Legal Culture of Multiculturalism and Interculturality: The Story of Canada
   26. Cocreating the Future Culture of Nursing: Transcultural Caring at Home and Around the World, and in Space

Index