<p><strong>Syftet</strong> med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser av möten med patienter med annan kulturell bakgrund än deras egen, samt att beskriva de möjligheter och hinder som sjuksköterskor upplever i samband med vården av dessa patienter. <strong></strong></p><p><strong>Metod</strong> Tolv kvalitativa studier från olika länder ingick i denna litteraturstudie, där forskare intervjuade sjuksköterskor och presenterade deras problem och erfarenheter. Vår studie analyserades enligt en kvalitativ metod.</p><p><strong>Resultat</strong> Studien visade fyra fenomen som sjuksköterskor upplever i samband med vården av patienter med annan kulturell bakgrund; <em>kommunikationen med patient, möten med familj/anhöriga, sjuksköterskornas erfarenheter av arbetssituationen vid kulturella möten och sjuksköterskornas kulturkunskap.</em></p><p><strong>Slutsats </strong>Sjuksköterskor upplevde att kommunikation var det största hindret i möten med patienter med annan kulturell bakgrund. Tolk, kollegor och anhöriga sågs som möjligheter för att undvika de hinder som uppstår. Familj till patienter med annan kulturell bakgrund var oerhört betydelsefull i omvårdnaden av dessa patienter. Sjuksköterskor såg utbildning som en möjlighet för att öka deras kulturkunskap och ansåg att tillgång till tolk skulle underlätta vården.</p> / <p><strong>Aim</strong> The purpose of this literature study was to describe nurses’ experiences of encounters with patients from different cultural backgrounds than their own, and to describe the opportunities and barriers that nurses’ face when caring for these patients.</p><p><strong>Method </strong>Twelve qualitative studies from different countries were included in this literature study, in which researchers interviewed nurses and presented their problems and experiences. Our study was analyzed by using a qualitative approach.</p><p><strong>Findings </strong>The study revealed four phenomena that nurses face when caring for patients from different cultural backgrounds; <em>the communication with the patient, encounters with family/relatives, nurses’ experiences of working conditions in cultural encounters and cultural nursing knowledge.</em></p><p><strong>Conclusion </strong>Nurses felt that communication was the biggest main obstacle in meetings with patients with different cultural backgrounds. Interpreter, colleagues and relatives were seen as opportunities to avoid the obstacles that arise. Family in patients with different cultural background was very important in nursing care of these patients. Nurses saw education as an opportunity to increase their cultural knowledge and believe that access to an interpreter would facilitate health care.</p>

In response to the nursing shortages, hospitals in the U.S. have been filling nursing positions by hiring foreign nurse graduates (FNGs). Filipino nurses represent the majority of all FNGs recruited to work in the U.S. Although Filipino nurses are not new to U.S. hospitals, very few studies have detailed how Filipino nurses have adjusted to U.S. nursing practice. The purpose of this study was to explore how Filipino nurses' perceived their role performance in the U.S. Using grounded theory as the methodology and symbolic interactionism as the philosophical underpinning, the principal investigator (PI) developed a substantive theory using a constant comparative method as the analytical approach. The PI used convenience and theoretical sampling to recruit 31 English-speaking female Filipino RNs practicing in Texas. One interview was conducted with each participant and the data were transcribed verbatim. The PI followed Strauss and Corbin's analytic steps to examine all cases, and the rigor of the theory was safeguarded by following the criteria of evaluation. All participants experienced challenges while adjusting to the U.S. healthcare system and American society due to differences in cultural expectations and experiences. The theory explains the processes of Filipino nurses' transition to U.S. nursing practice. The core variable was "transitioning from Filipino to U.S. nursing practice," which was shaped by nine relational categories. Based on descriptions from these Filipino nurses, it was clear that role transitioning from the Philippines to the U.S. is a complex phenomenon influenced by the meanings and expectations derived from these nurses' prior context in the Philippines. This theory should be beneficial to the many entities involved with or invested in Filipino nurses' migration by providing knowledge about their role transitioning. However, these findings cannot be applied to all Filipino nurses. Future research studies are needed to expand the scope of this theory and to empirically test it. Filipino nurses perceived that unethical actions were constantly taking place, regardless of existing rules and regulations. However, these nurses did little to correct or address the problems or ethical lapses themselves. Advocacy efforts are needed to ensure full understanding of immigration laws and policies to ensure fair work practices for Filipino nurses working in the U.S. / text

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Bakgrund: Enligt Socialstyrelsens kompetensbeskrivning för sjuksköterskor ska sjuksköterskor vid omvårdnad se till hela människan, detta innefattar många olika delar bland annat kultur. I ett allt mer mångkulturellt samhälle ökar kraven på sjuksköterskor att utöva transkulturell omvårdnad. Syfte: Syftet för denna studie är att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av transkulturell medvetenhet i en vårdrelation. Metod: Genom en litteraturstudie granskades elva artiklar och sammanställdes utifrån likheter och skillnader. Resultat: Fenomenet kan tydliggöras utifrån två teman med subteman. 1)Kommunikation med subteman; Språkbarriärer, Kroppsspråk och Tolkar och 2) Kulturella skillnader med subteman; Förväntningar, Anhöriga och Vi och dom. Slutsats: För att kunna ge god omvårdnad behöver sjuksköterskor se till den unika individen och dennes behov. Det kräver att sjuksköterskor ser människan bakom kulturen samt har en insikt i dess påverkan på människans beteende. När detta inte tas hänsyn till ökar risken för vårdlidande och bristande patientsäkerhet. / Background: Nurses should according to Socialstyrelsens kompetensbeskrivning för sjuksköterskor, take into consideration the human as a whole, this includes many different parts, among those culture. In a increasingly multicultural society the demands on nurses to practice transcultural nursing increases. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe nurses experiences of transcultural awareness in a caring relationship. Method: In a literature review eleven articles were examined and summarized according to similarities and differences. Results: The phenomenon can be clarified by two themes with subthemes. 1) Communication with subthemes; Language barriers, Body language, and Interpreters and Cultural differences with subthemes; Expectations, Relatives and Us and them. Conclusion: To be able to give good care nurses need to see the unique individual and her needs. This requires that nurses sees the person behind the culture and has insight on its influence on human behavior. When this is not taken into consideration the risk of care suffering and defective patient safety increases.

Sverige har blivit ett mångkulturellt land vilket innebär att sjuksköterskan möter patienter från olika kulturer som är i behov av palliativ vård. Detta gör det viktigt att belysa i vilken grad sjuksköterskan har förmåga att hantera svårigheter som kan förekomma vid vård av patienter med olika kulturella bakgrunder i palliativ vård. Syftet med arbetet är att beskriva sjuksköterskans upplevelse av transkulturell palliativ vård. Metoden som används är en kvalitativ litteraturöversikt grundad på 11 artiklar som beskriver sjuksköterskans upplevelser av transkulturell palliativ vård. Artiklarna har eftersökts i databaserna CINAHL, Medline och PubMed. Resultatet visar att kommunikation är en viktig del för att kunna erbjuda vård och omsorg med kvalitet till patienter med olika kulturella bakgrunder. Förståelse för patientens verbala och icke-verbala kommunikation är väsentlig för att kunna skapa en bra relation mellan sjuksköterskan och patienten inom palliativ vård. Att använda tolk kräver att sjuksköterskans har kompetens och kunskap om hur man kommunicerar genom tolk för att kunna överbrygga kommunikationshinder. Resultatet visar att olika kulturella föreställningar skapar utmaningar vid transkulturell omvårdnad inom palliativ vård. Sjuksköterskans kunskap om kulturella skillnader är viktigt för att kunna undvika missförstånd och konflikter.  Resultatet visar också att medvetenhet, kulturell sensibilitet, patientens autonomi och familjen, är de faktorer som har betydelse för att kunna ge en god transkulturell omvårdnad inom palliativ vård. Uppsatsen visar att sjuksköterskans generella kunskap om kulturell känslighet, respekt och öppenhet för olika kulturella skillnader och empati kan vara viktiga förutsättningar för att undvika kulturella utmaningar i transkulturell omvårdnad inom palliativ vård. Sjuksköterskans förmåga att ge vård som är individanpassad med ett holistiskt synsätt för patientens situation och god kommunikation är viktigt för att kunna utföra god transkulturell omvårdnad inom palliativ vård. / Sweden has become a multicultural country which means that nurses encounter patients from diverse cultural backgrounds that in need of palliative care, this makes it important to examine the ability of nurse on how to deal with difficulties that may occur in the caring for patients in transcultural palliative care.The purpose of this study is to describe nurse’s experience in transcultural palliative care. A literature review based on 11 articles describing nurse’s experiences in transcultural palliative care. The articles used in the study are qualitative articles and has been researched in the database CINAHL, Medline and PubMed.The results show that communication has a vital part in providing a quality care for patients with different cultural backgrounds. An understanding of the patient's verbal and non-verbal communication is essential in order to create a good relationship between the nurse and the patient in palliative care. Using an interpreter requires that the nurse has the skills and knowledge of how to communicate through an interpreter in order to overcome communication barriers. The results show that different cultural beliefs can create challenges in transcultural nursing in palliative care. The nurse's knowledge of cultural differences is important in order to avoid misunderstandings and conflicts. The result also shows that awareness, cultural sensitivity, patient autonomy and the family, are the factors that are important to give a good transcultural nursing in palliative care.The thesis shows that nurses' general knowledge about cultural sensitivity, respect and openness to different cultural differences and empathy may be important prerequisites for avoiding cultural challenges in transcultural nursing in palliative care. The nurse's ability to provide care that is personalized with a holistic view of the patient's situation and good communication is essential in order to perform good transcultural nursing in palliative care.

Syftet: Syftet med studien var att belysa specialistutbildade sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av transkulturell omvårdnad inom psykiatrisk vård. Metod: Studien genomfördes med en kvalitativ metod med enskilda semistrukturerade intervjuer. Specialistutbildade sjuksköterskor som arbetat inom psykiatrisk vård minst ett år fick berätta om sina erfarenheter av transkulturell omvårdnad.  Resultat: I resultatet framkom det att specialistutbildade sjuksköterskor inompsykiatrisk vård upplever språket som ett hinder för omvårdnaden eftersom språket är så centralt inom psykiatrisk vård då samtal utgör en stor del under vårdtiden. Det visar också att religiösa och kulturella seder kan ha betydelse i möten med patienter från olika kulturer. Möjligheter att förstå varandra mellan personal, patienter och anhöriga som är delaktiga i vården lyfts fram. Anhöriga kan bidra med information och även stötta patienterna vilket är värdefullt för omvårdnaden. Tolk används ofta för att lösa kommunikationsproblem men de används inte i så stor utsträckning man skulle önska på grund av kostnader. Slutsats: De specialistutbildade sjuksköterskorna har i stor utsträckning, kunnat ta hänsyn till patientens önskemål och erbjudit patienten det bästa möjliga alternativ till god omvårdnad. Studien visar att det finns specialistutbildade sjuksköterskor inom psykiatrisk vård som anser sig behöva mer kunskap inom transkulturell omvårdnad. / Aim: The study focuses on advanced trained psychiatry nurse’s experiences of transcultural nursing in psychiatric care. Method: The study was conducted using a qualitative method of individual semistructured interviews. Nurses working in psychiatric care could share experiences of transcultural nursing. Results: In the result, one finding was that nurses perceive differences oflanguage as a barrier in the care, because communication is central in psychiatriccare. Religious and cultural beliefs and practices may also have an impact on the meeting with a patient from a different culture. There is opportunity for enhanced mutual understand when relatives are involved in the care. They can provide more information as well as support to the patient. Interpreters are used to solve communication problems; however they are not engaged as often as they should, due to the cost. Conclusion: That nurses, to a large extent, have been able to take into account patient’s wishes and thereby been able to offer the best possible treatment optionsto the patient. The study finds that nurses in general need a wider knowledge of transcultural nursing.

Doctorate of Health Sciences / Abstract The aim of this study was to understand the meaning of caring as experienced by Arab Muslim nurses within the context of Arab culture. A qualitative approach using ethnographic methodology based on the approaches of Geertz (1973), Fitzgerald (1997) and Davies (1999) was used to develop a description that embeds the phenomena of the nurses’ meaning of caring within the cultural context. Good and Good’s (1981) meaning–centred approach was used to interpret the nurse’s explanatory models of health, illness and healing that inform the caring experience. This study conveys the cultural worlds of Arab Muslim nurses from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt while caring for Arab Muslim patients in Saudi Arabia. Data were collected over a four year period (2004-2007). Arab Muslim nurses have a religiously informed explanatory model where health is spiritual, physical and psycho-social well-being. Spirituality is central to the belief system where spiritual needs take priority over physical needs as a distinctive care pattern. The professional health belief system blends into the nurses’ cultural and religious belief system, forming a culturally distinct explanatory health beliefs system. This finding suggests that in non-Western health contexts, professional models are not dominant but incorporated into nurses’ indigenous worldviews in a way that makes sense within the culture. Caring is based on shared meanings between nurse and patient. Caring is an act of spiritualty and an action by the nurse to facilitate his or her own spirituality and that of the patient. In turn, the nurse receives reward from Allah for caring actions. A distinct ethical framework based on principles of Islamic bio-ethics guides the nurses in their caring. This research provides the missing link between Western professional nursing systems and Arab Muslim nurses’ caring models and contributes to the development of a caring model that is relevant to, and reflective of, Arab cultural and Islamic religious values. This caring model can provide direction for nurse education and the provision of care to Muslim patients, whether in Arab cultures, Islamic societies or with immigrant Muslim populations. In addition, it provides the basis for an Islamic nursing identity and a beginning point for improving the moral status and image of nursing in the Middle East.

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