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Caring for Patients from Different Cultures / Geri-Ann Galanti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galanti, Geri-Ann, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transcultural Nursing--methods.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Transcultural medical care.
- Transcultural nursing.
- United States.
- Cultural Competency.
- Cultural Diversity.
- Transcultural nursing--United States--Case studies.
- Transcultural medical care--United States--Case studies.
- Hospital care--United States--Psychological aspects--Case studies.
- Hospital care.
- Psychological aspects.
- Ethnopsychology--United States--Case studies.
- Medical Subjects:
- Transcultural Nursing--methods.
- Cultural Competency.
- Cultural Diversity.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 368 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room. To provide optimal care for all patients, it is important to see differences from the patient's perspective and to work with patients from a range of demographics. Caring for Patients from Different Cultures has been a vital resource for nurses and physicians for more than twenty years, offering hundreds of case studies that illustrate crosscultural conflicts or misunderstandings as well as examples of culturally competent health care. Now in its fifth edition, Caring for Patients from Different Cultures covers a wide range of topics, including birth, end of life, communication, traditional medicine, mental health, pain, religion, and multicultural staff challenges. This edition includes more than sixty new cases with an expanded appendix, introduces a new chapter on improving adherence, and updates the concluding chapter with examples of changes various hospitals have made to accommodate cultural differences. Grounded in concepts from the fields of cultural diversity and medical anthropology, Caring for Patients from Different Cultures provides healthcare workers with a frame of reference for understanding cultural differences and sound alternatives for providing the best possible care to multicultural communities. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Basic concepts
- Communication and time orientation
- Pain
- Religion and spirituality
- Activities of daily living and the body
- Family
- Men and women
- Staff relations
- Birth
- End of life
- Mental health
- Traditional medicine : practices and perspectives
- Improving adherence
- Making a difference.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812223118
- 081222311X
- OCLC:
- 884961880
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