title: Brokerage in multicultural nursing.
abstract: Nurses in contact with clients from different cultures often encounter beliefs at appear inconsistent with conventional Western medicine, resulting in the need for the nurse to act as a broker--i.e. translating and processing messages, instructions and belief systems from one group to a another.
authors.affiliation: Kamuzu College of Nursing, University of Malawi, Lilongwe.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chalanda
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D017008:Negotiating; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D014175:Translating