Introdução: Para o ribeirinho amazônico as plantas medicinais representam muitas vezes o único recurso terapêutico disponível para o tratamento de suas doenças. Utilizam como base para produção do recurso natural, folhas, cascas e sementes, com o objetivo de alívio de problemas de saúde. O registro das plantas medicinais utilizadas de modo terapêutico por tais grupos humanos tem oferecido base para o desenvolvimento de estudos fitoquímicos e farmacológicos de novas drogas. Além disso, a análise de práticas de cuidado em ambientes culturalmente exóticos fortalecem a enfermagem transcultural, a medida que visa o intercâmbio dos saberes populares e científico. Como referencial teórico utilizou-se a etnobotânica e o modelo Sunrise de Leininger e Mc Farland. Objetivo geral: Analisar o uso terapêutico de plantas medicinais no contexto sociocultural ribeirinho da comunidade Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Boam, localizada no Médio Solimões, Coari Amazonas. Objetivos específicos: Conhecer os valores, crenças e aspectos da estrutura sociocultural que envolvem a utilização da fitoterapia popular no ambiente ribeirinho; identificar o itinerário terapêutico das famílias ribeirinhas; analisar o uso das plantas medicinais entre os ribeirinhos com notório saber em plantas medicinais; e analisar o uso terapêutico da planta de maior importância para a comunidade. Material e Método: Estudo etnobotânico realizado na comunidade ribeirinha Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Boam, localizada na cidade de Coari-Amazonas. Os participantes do estudo foram 19 informantes, gerais e especialistas pessoas de notório saber na terapeutica com plantas medicinais. A coleta de dados ocorreu entre os meses de janeiro de 2015 e maio de 2016 por meio da turnê-guiada, exsicata, entrevistas semi-estruturadas e estruturadas. A análise dos dados ocorreu de forma quanti-qualitativa através da análise temática e cálculos de Fator de Consenso Individual, Importância Relativa e Valor de Uso, para identificacao das plantas e doenças de maior relevância comunitária. Resultados: Os especialistas foram predominantemente do sexo feminino (88%), com idade média de 50 anos. Em termos de ocupação, a maioria deles eram agricultores (63,3%), com rendimento médio mensal abaixo do salário mínimo brasileiro por família e apenas 36,4% dos entrevistados eram alfabetizados. O itinerário terapêutico da comunidade inicia-se com a fitoterapia popular, em seguida o rezador, o agente comunitário de saúde local, e, finalmente, o médico. As razões que influenciavam a terapêutica com plantas medicinais eram: a fé, a segurança, o conhecimento sobre o preparo, o fácil acesso e a eficácia das plantas. Foi relatado o uso de 62 plantas medicinais, para o cuidado de doenças infecciosas e parasitárias, neoplasias, doenças hematológicas, nutricionais, dermatológicas, transtornos comportamentais, doenças do sistema nervoso, ouvido, dos aparelhos circulatório, respiratório, digestivo, osteomuscular, geniturinário; como anti-inflamatórios e anticoncepcional, totalizando 49 indicações terapêuticas. As doenças do sistema respiratório foram as mais relevantes na comunidade com maior quantitativo de plantas (n=30) e citações (n=162). A planta medicinal de maior importância e versatilidade foi a caatinga de mulata (S. Aeollanthus), uma erva com evidências de ação antimicrobiana, anticonvulsivante, sedativa, analgésica e anti-inflamatória, utilizada na comunidade para doenças pulmonares, intestinais, dermatológicas e hemorrágicas, em nove problemas de saúde diferentes. Conclusão: Nesta comunidade, a estrutura sociocultural ribeirinha, assim como seus valores e crenças envolvem a utilização de ervas medicinais como a primeira escolha terapêutica. A rica farmacopeia encontrada pode facilitar a descoberta de novas drogas. Além disso, por meio da Teoria do Cuidado Cultural foi constatada a possibilidade da preservação do cuidado com a espécie S. Aeollanthus. Todavia, para se tornar um prática baseada em evidência existe a necessidade de ensaios pré-clínios e clínicos em humanos. / Introduction: | Most of the times, the medicinal plants represent to the riparian the only therapeutic resource available to the treatment of their diseases. Sheets, shells and seeds are the basis to the production of these natural resources looking for the relief of health problems. Registration of the therapeutic use of the medicinal plants has been the basis for phytochemical and pharmacologic studies to the discover of new drugs. Besides that, the analysis of practices of caring in culturally exotic environments, strengthen the transcultural nursing in a way that deal with the exchange between the popular and the scientific knowledges. As a theoretical framework it was used the ethnobotany and the Sunrises model of Leininger and Mc Farland. General objective: Analyze the therapeutic use of the medicinal plants in the sociocultural context of the riparian in the community Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Boam, localized in the Médio Solimões, Coari - Amazonas. Specific objectives: Know the values, beliefs and aspects of the sociocultural structure involving the use of the traditional medicinal plants among the riparian; identify the therapeutic itinerary of these families; analyze the use of theses plants by the riparian with notorious knowledge in medicinal plants; and analyze the therapeutic use of the most important plant to that community. Material and method: Ethnobotanic study developed in the riparian community Nossa. Senhora da Conceição do Boam, localized in the city of Coari - Amazonas. The participants of the study were 19 general and specialist informants - the second one, people with notorious knowledge in using medicinal plants. The data collection occurred between January/2015 and May/2016 by guide-tours, excicata, semi-structured and structured interviews. Analysis was made by quanti-qualitative through the thematic analysis, calculus of Individual Consensus Factor, Relative Importance and Value of Using to identify the plants and the diseases of most relevance in the community. Results: The specialists were mainly female (88%), an average of 50 years old. Most of them were farmers (63,3%), with the average monthly income under the national minimum wage by family, and 36,4% of the interviewed were alphabetized. The communitys therapeutic itinerary starts with the traditional medicinal plants, following the prayer, the community health agent, and, finally, the doctor. The therapeutic with medicinal plants were influenced by faith, security, knowledge about its preparing, the easy access to the plants and their efficacy. It was related the use of 62 medicinal plants, to the caring of infectious and parasite diseases; neoplasia; hematological, neurological, nutritional and dermatological diseases, behavior disorders, other diseases of the ear, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, musculoskeletal and genitourinary systems; as anti-inflammatory and contraceptive, totalizing 49 therapeutic indications. The respiratory diseases were the most relevant in the community, with the highest quantitative of plants (n=30) and citations (n=162). The most important and versatile medicinal plant to the community was the catinga de mulata (S. Aeollanthus), an herb with evidences of antimicrobial, anti convulsive, sedative, analgesic and anti-inflammatory actions, used by the community to respiratory, intestinal, dermatological and hemorrhagic diseases, totalizing nine different health disorders. Conclusion: In this community, the riparian sociocultural structure, as their values and beliefs involves the using of medicinal herbs as their first therapeutic choice. The rich pharmacopoeia found can make easier the discovering of new drugs. Besides that, the Cultutal Care Teory enables the preservation of the caring with the species S. Aeollanthus, but randomized pre-clinic and clinic trials with humans are important to use it based on evidence.

Bakgrund: Till följd av krig, orolighet och förtryck befinner sig miljontals människor på   flykt världen över och med hänsyn till detta kommer de flesta hälso-och sjukvårdspersonal, i synnerhet sjuksköterskor möta dessa sårbara och utsatta patienter. Det rapporteras att flyktingar har komplexa hälsobehov, där det innefattar psykiska respektive somatiska hälsoproblem, som uppkommit till följd av svåra omständigheter innan, under och efter flykten. Den kulturella tillhörigheten kan influera synen på hur hälsa, ohälsa och sjukdom uppfattas vilket medför vikten av att som sjuksköterska ha kunskap om, anpassa och   tillgodose omvårdnadsbehoven utifrån individens unika kulturella sammanhang. Syfte: Syftet var att belysa sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda flyktingar. Metod: Studien genomfördes enligt Fribergs metod och baserades på elva kvalitativa vetenskapliga artiklar som hittades i databaserna CINAHL Complete och PubMed. Analysering av insamlad data framställde resultatets kategorier och subkategorier. Resultat: Resultatet över litteraturöversikten presenterades utifrån fyra huvudkategorier: Kommunikationshinder, Organisationens inflytande, Kulturella utmaningar, Vårdrelationens betydelse. Huvudkategorier presenteras med tillhörande subkategorier: Hälso-och sjukvårdssystem, Etiska ställningstaganden, Behov av kunskap, Det vårdande mötet, Emotionell påverkan och Ett givande arbete. Diskussion: Metoddiskussionen diskuteras utifrån styrkor och svagheter, genomförda tillvägagångssätt samt  kvalitetsgranskning av resultatartiklar. Resultatdiskussionens fynd   diskuteras utifrån Madeleine Leningers teori om transkulturell omvårdnad, vetenskaplig litteratur, studiens bakgrund och författarnas egna  reflektioner. / Background: As a result of war, anxiety and oppression, millions of human´s are fleeing the world. Due to this, most health professionals, especially nurses, will face these vulnerable and exposed patients. It´s reported that refugees have complex health needs, which   includes mental and somatic health problems, which have arisen as a result of difficult circumstances, before, during and after the escape. The cultural affiliation can influence the perception of how health, ill-health and illness is perceived, which implies the importance of as a nurse having knowledge of adapting and catering for the patients’ needs based on the individual´s unique cultural context. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore nurse´s experiences of caring for refugees. Method: The literature review was conducted according to Friberg´s method, with the basis of eleven qualitative scientific articles that were found in the databases CINAHL Complete and PubMed. Analyses of collected data produced the results categories and subcategories. Results: The result of the literature review was presented on the basis of four main categories: Communication barriers, The organisation´s influence, Cultural challenges and The   importance of caring relationships. Main categories are presented with associated subcategories: Healthcare systems, Ethical standpoints, Need of knowledge, The caring meeting, Emotional influence and A rewarding work. Discussion: The Method discussion is discussed on the basis of strengths, weaknesses, implemented approach and quality review of results articles. The findings of the discussion are discussed on the basis of Madeleine Leninger's theory of transcultural nursing, scientific literature, the background of the study and the authors own reflections.

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.

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.

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.

Thesis (Ph.D. in Nursing) -- University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-215). Free to UCDHSC affiliates. Online version available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations;

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