Karen Holland

Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care

An Introductory Text

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook relates theory to practice and enhances students' learning and understanding of cultural issues that impact on patient care and their own practice as nurses, while considering wider social and political issues. Including new chapters on cultural principles from other disciplines, cultural diversity, and international perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 3. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9781138627192
• ISBN-10: 1138627194
• Artikelnr.: 57051031

Autorenporträt

Karen Holland RN, BSc (Hons)Nursing , MSc Medical Social Anthropology, RNT , Editor of the international Nurse Education in Practice journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
1. Culture, race and ethnicity: exploring the concepts
2. Cultural care: knowledge and skills for implementation in practice
3. Religious beliefs and cultural care
4. Understanding the theory of health and illness beliefs
5. Working with health and illness beliefs in practice
6. Women and health care in a multicultural society
7. Men and health care in a multicultural society
8. Child and family centred care: a cultural perspective
9. Care of older people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups
Elizabeth Collier and Prem Conhye
10. Culture and mental health
11. Caring for the health needs of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
12. Death and bereavement: a cross-cultural perspective
13. Cultural diversity and professional practice