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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]

Although the existence of multi-ethnic and pluricultural societies is not new, the perspective of equality and recognition has remained on paper, without permeating citizen attitudes. Migrations and globalization have led to greater international awareness of interculturality, facing challenges at the educational and health care levels, generating regulations in relation to protection and respect for diversity. The emergence and development of the concept of interculturality in education allows us to reflect on its importance and the role it has been given in health and nursing training. It is evident that institutional efforts have been insufficient, as the coloniality of being and knowledge continues to prevail, since Anglo-Saxon and European positions are still assumed that are in tension with the Latin American context. Nursing is still on the way to forging interculturality, it is important to include the subject in the training of professionals, which contributes to the construction of selfcare. The proposal of this article is to approach the notion of interculturality from education and health, to re-think epistemologically another look at the training of professionals in nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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