title: Staff development for culturally sensitive nursing care.
abstract: This article describes a workshop conducted to address the need to incorporate cultural sensitivity into nursing care. Three major points are explained: (a) how ethnicity and culture of patients affect health care attitudes, values, and practices; (b) how knowledge of cultural characteristics can improve nursing and health care effectiveness; and (3) the cultural awareness strategies generated by those who participated in the workshop.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rooda
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gay
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education*