Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach

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Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 3rd Edition

By Larry D. Purnell, PhD, RN, FAAN, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
Betty J. Paulanka, EdD, RN, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1865-7
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1865-4

416 pp. Soft cover. ©2008 Available now. $52.95

Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach

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Both of University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Prepare your students for the culturally rich and ethically diverse world in which they will practice. Noted researchers, educators, and clinicians, from a wealth of backgrounds, use the Purnell twelve-step model to examine more than 30 population groups from a health care perspective. Each brings a personal understanding of the traditions and customs of their societies, providing a unique perspective on the implications for patient care.

Multiple vignettes in each culture-based chapter clearly illustrate situations and issues across the nursing continuum.
Expanded focus on evidence-based practice.
Summaries of the chapters on 18 additional cultures online at DavisPlus appear in one-page abstracts in the Appendix.
More student learning resources online at DavisPlus, including all of the Case Studies from the 2nd Edition
Knowledge and Understanding Questions and web links to content.
More teaching tools for instructors online at DavisPlus, including a test bank and classroom assignments for each chapter.

Uses the Purnell twelve-step model to organize the discussion of each cultural group, looking at the following factors...
- Inhabited localities, topography, and overview
- Communications
- Family roles and organization
- Workforce issues
- Biocultural ecology
- High-risk behaviors
- Nutrition
- Pregnancy and childbearing practices
- Death rituals
- Spirituality
- Health-care practices
- Health-care practitioners

1. Transcultural Diversity and Health Care
2. The Purnell Model for Cultural
Competence
3. People of African American Heritage
4. The Amish
5. People of Appalachian Heritage
6. People of Arab Heritage
7. People of Chinese Heritage
8. People of Guatemalan Heritage
9. People of Egyptian Heritage
10. People of Filipino Heritage
11. People of French Canadian Heritage
12. People of German Heritage
13. People of Haitian Heritage
14. People of Iranian Heritage
15. People of Japanese Heritage
16. People of Jewish Heritage
17. People of Korean Heritage
18. People of Mexican Heritage
19. People of Russian Heritage
20. People of Polish Heritage
21. People of Thai Heritage
Appendix A: Cultural, Ethnic, and Racial
Diseases and Illnesses
Appendix B: Abstracts in the book with full
chapters available online at DavisPlus.
1. People of Baltic Heritage: Estonians,
Latvians, and Lithuanians
2. People of Brazilian Heritage
3. People of Greek Heritage
4. People of Cuban Heritage
5. People of Hindu Heritage
6. People of Irish Heritage
7. People of Italian Heritage
8. People of Puerto Rican Heritage
9. Navajo Indians
10. People of Turkish Heritage
11. People of Vietnamese Heritage
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