title: Cultural considerations in perioperative nursing.
abstract: This article provides a brief overview of cultural diversity and its significance to health care. LEARN, an illness explanatory model, and its application to a case study of a minority patient's surgical experience are presented to increase surgical nurses' awareness of cultural illness beliefs and treatment expectations.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78284, USA.
authors.forename: Y R
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Davila
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D016294:Models, Nursing; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States