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Culture shapes nursing practice: Findings from a New Zealand study.
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Patient Education & Counseling . Nov2017, Vol. 100 Issue 11, p2047-2053. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- <bold>Objectives: </bold>This paper reports research undertaken to investigate nurses' and parents' experiences of communication about parental emotions in a hospital setting, with a focus on the environmental and cultural context within which the communication occurs.<bold>Methods: </bold>A focused ethnography was employed as the aims were to understand the context within which nurse-parent interaction takes place, by exploring cultural factors, such as ways of living affecting nursing communication. Data collection occurred in a children's unit of a New Zealand hospital, involving 260h of participant observation field work, informal interviews with parents and nurses, followed by 20 formal interviews with nurses and parents.<bold>Results: </bold>Nurses are cultural brokers, with the potential to be a link between the insider culture, the hospital and the outside, the parents. Parents look to nurses for cultural brokerage, to help them cross the strong cultural boundaries present in a hospital unit.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The context and culture of a hospital unit influences nurse-parent communication. There is a disconnection between parents' emotional needs in hospital and nurses' ability to meet those needs.<bold>Practice Implications: </bold>Nurses must be supported to provide effective cultural brokerage for parents. Unit managers need to acknowledge that meeting parents' diverse needs is vital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07383991
- Volume :
- 100
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Patient Education & Counseling
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 125100352
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2017.06.017