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.
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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*