title: Enhancing communications with multicultural patient populations.
abstract: Learning more about clients of ours who are from different cultures is a challenging but necessary task. The very characteristics that make up an individual's beliefs, behaviors, and intellectual and spiritual foundations are intrinsic to a person's overall health and well-being, and we must learn to prepare appropriate patient care services. The authors review the different sources that are available to assist home care workers and their multicultural patients.
authors.affiliation: lsch340283@aol.com
authors.forename: Laura M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kinsella
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D001213:Asian; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D003142:Communication; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018576:Home Health Aides / Q000193:education; D006738:Hospices / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D014481:United States