Practical Strategies for Providing Culturally Sensitive, Ethical Care in Developing Nations

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-76

  Crigger, Nancy J ^a   Holcomb, Lygia ^b  

^a WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

developing nations cultural sensitivity; ethical multiculturalism; global ethics; nursing ethics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AMERICAN NURSES' ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AWARENESS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICAL THEORY; FACULTY, NURSING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREJUDICE; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33845799581     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659606294198     Document Type: Article

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