Transcultural Communication in Nursing

by Cora Munoz

Book Overview

Transcultural Communication in Nursing, Second Edition, is designed to help learners and practicing professionals increase their self-awareness by recognizing possible biases and becoming more sensitive to cultural differences. This new edition gives examples of exchanges between the nurse and patients who hold various cultural values and beliefs. Latinos, Hispanics, Muslims, Hasidic and Reform Jews, Filipinos, Native Americans, and African Americans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766848779
• ISBN13: 9780766848771
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive, well-organized and practice-oriented.

This is a comprehensive, well-organized, practical guide in transcultural communication. The special features such as the self-assessment exercises, self-evaluation exercises, diary, and end-of-chapter questions are particularly motivating and instructive to the beginner transcultural communication practitioner. Although the book is practice-oriented, mentioning the contribution of Leininger to transcultural nursing theory would have been appropriate.Another special feature that I liked is the discussion of culturally appropriate nursing diagnoses. It explains why the NANDA taxonomy may be culturally biased and provides recommendations for writing more culturally appropriate nursing diagnoses.Another feature is the chapter on working with interpreters. It provides guidelines for working with and without interpreters.. I think a section on sign-language or deaf-interpreters would have been a nice addition. There are also on-line translation resources that are now available.I also liked the annotated list of books and films. I would suggest adding books such as by nurse-anthropologist Jody Glittenberg, "To the mountain and back", of her experiences as a nurse and anthropologist in Guatemala.I reviewed the 1999 paperback edition.