Cross-cultural perspectives on patient teaching.
Patient education for individuals of different cultures provides the professional nurse an opportunity to make a difference in the increasingly complex and changing problems in our bureaucratic society. Use of therapeutic relationships, indeed, can blend two worlds. Although we never can fully predict a patient's response to health teaching, we are likely to be much more effective if we understand and draw from the cultural context in which the patient is enmeshed.
University of Iowa College of Nursing, Iowa City.
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D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000379:methods; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*