Caregiving to patients who are culturally diverse by Swedish last-year nursing students.
With Leininger's theory of cultural care diversity and universality as a framework, the aim of this study was to describe Swedish last-year nursing students' experiences of caregiving to patients who are culturally diverse. The students participated voluntarily, 107 by completing a questionnaire with open-ended questions and 15 by participating in in-depth semistructured interviews. Three categories of experience were identified by use of qualitative method, namely, cultural awareness, cultural insufficiency, and cultural curiosity. The students were found to be on the level of Leininger's first phase of transcultural knowledge. It is concluded that cultural sensitivity should be promoted by integrating transcultural concepts into the curricula on all levels of nursing education and by offering special courses on transcultural nursing to nursing students and health care providers.
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Pranee C
PC
Lundberg
Josefin
J
Bäckström
Sarah
S
Widén
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D002983:Clinical Competence; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000523:psychology*; D012579:Schools, Nursing; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards