Transcultural Encounters in a Medical Ward in Sweden: Experiences of Health Care Practitioners

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 342-350

  Dellenborg, Lisen ^a,b   Skott, Carola ^a   Jakobsson, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Institute for Health Sciences   (Sweden)

Author keywords

continuing education staff development; dialectical; focus group analysis; gender; health care encounters; hermeneutical; multicultural; multiprofessional; participant observation; participatory action research; transcultural; transcultural health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SWEDEN; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SWEDEN; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING;

EID: 84866746052     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659612451258     Document Type: Article

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