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Introduction. The current globalized world expresses important challenges for nursing care, so that the suffering is recognized and relieved taking into account the patient’s culture. Objective. To describe the fin¬dings of research into experiences of hospital nurses about compassion and care to culturally diverse people. Method. Systematic review. The searches were conducted in: Web of Science, CINAHL, OVID Nursing, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, Medline (PubMed), PsycARTICLES, Virtual Health Library, CUIDEN Plus, TripDatabase, Epistemonikos and Descubridor de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. A total of 83 searches were conducted with MeSH, DeCS and natural language terms, including research or review articles with qualitative approaches, published in Spanish, English or Portuguese. Results. 42 papers were included, with a predominance of phenomenological, ethnographic and grounded theory designs. These reflect the link between compassion and care for culturally diverse people, developed through three themes, and 14 sub-themes. Conclusion. The experiences of nurses and patients are diverse, but the connection between compassion and cultural competence in nursing care in the clinical setting is visible. This systematization shows educational and training needs, demonstrates the tensions between personal, professional and institutional culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural diversity includes multiple forms of interpreting the experience of pain, from the point of view of nursing we must take interest in the different cultural collectives to better understand their ways of understanding the world with the goal of adapting our cares. In this study, we delve into the variability of the experience of labour in immigrant women. Main objective: Delving into the diversity of the experiences of the process of labour in immigrant women. Methods: Bibliographic review. We used following inclusion criteria articles were accepted since 2000 until now. Those that were full text were accepted and fit the proposed theme. We found 57 articles of which 31 were selected for the final review. Results: We have organised the different found themes into three block; immigrant women and health, variability in the process of labour and nursing implication. Conclusions: The variability in the experience of labour does not only appear between different cultural groups, but also within the same culture, this variability demands from us an adaptation in the cares we offer to different collectives and regarding the different ways of acting during the process of labour, we have not found any paper that proposes a way to do so, new studies are indispensable that not only theorise about the cultural adaptation of cares, but also centre on how to take them into practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]