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. Transcultural Awareness and Caring in Nursing and Health Care
2. Development of the Cultural, Transcultural, and Multicultural Self
3. Transcultural Caring Dynamics
4. Ethical Principles: Moral Caring Knowledge
5. Transcultural Context: Social and Organizational Culture
6. Universal Sources: Religious and Spiritual Traditions
7. Summary of Transcultural Caring: The Dynamics of Contemporary Nursing
8. Case Studies: Profiles for Transcultural Caring

Appendices
Summary of Characteristics of Various Ethnic Groups
Summary of Beliefs of Various Major Religious Groups