Transcultural nursing : assessment and intervention

This resource addresses specific assessment and intervention strategies needed for clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. The book provides a systematic model of nursing assessment and intervention which takes into account six cultural phenomena: communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations. The model then serves as the organizing framework for the rest of the book. * Features Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model, with a full chapter devoted to each of the six aspects of cultural assessment, to help the reader apply this model to any client of any culture. * Presents critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter to help students apply the assessment framework in practice. * Includes an expansion of the spiritual component throughout, with an emphasis on various religions. * Offers clarification of some of the biological variations for select cultural groups. * Includes most recent census information and statistics for each cultural group presented.… (more)