1. Transcultural Nurse Views on Culture-Sensitive/Patient-Centered Assessment and Care Planning: A Descriptive Study.
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Narayan, Mary Curry and Mallinson, R. Kevin
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NURSES' attitudes , *FOCUS groups , *NURSING , *NURSING models , *NURSING care plans , *RESEARCH methodology , *DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) , *PATIENT-centered care , *COMMUNITIES , *CONFERENCES & conventions , *CULTURAL pluralism , *TRANSCULTURAL nursing , *QUALITATIVE research , *NURSE-patient relationships , *NURSES , *EXPERTISE , *CULTURAL competence , *RESEARCH funding , *SOUND recordings , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *WHITE people , *CULTURAL awareness , *NURSING assessment - Abstract
Introduction: Culture-sensitive (CS) and patient-centered (PC) care are considered essential to achieve high-quality equitable care. The purpose of this study was to determine how expert nurses incorporate CS/PC care into their assessment and care planning practices, especially for culturally diverse and marginalized patients. Methodology: Using a qualitative, descriptive design, we conducted a focus group at the October 2019 Transcultural Nursing Society Conference. Participants (n = 9) discussed how they instilled cultural sensitivity and patient-centeredness into their assessment and care planning skills. Results: Participants revealed attitudes, knowledge, and skills associated with CS/PC assessment and care planning. They also identified specific strategies for translating CS/PC theory into assessment and care planning practices. Discussion: Three principles and many pragmatic strategies for incorporating CS/PC care into daily practice emerged from the data. Nurses may find these principles and strategies helpful in integrating CS/PC care into their daily care of patients in busy clinical settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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