Student nurses’ experiences of communication in cross-cultural care encounters

Encounters in Home-Based Nursing Care - Registered Nurses’ Experiences

The encounter between registered nurses and persons in need of healthcare has been described as fundamental in nursing care. This encounter can take place face-to-face in physical meetings and through meetings via distance-spanning technology. A strong view expressed in the literature is that the face-to-face encounter is important and cannot entirely be replaced by remote encounters. The encou...

Supporting cross-cultural communication in real-world encounters

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Supporting Cross-Cultural Communication in Real-World Encounters

Final year student nurses' experiences of wound care: an evaluation.

This article reports on research to explore if pre-registration nursing students felt prepared to manage patients' skin integrity effectively on registration. Final year nursing students completing adult, child and mental health fields were invited to complete questionnaires to investigate the amount of teaching sessions delivered in university in relation to managing skin integrity during thei...

Cross-cultural communication barriers in health care.

AIM To investigate healthcare professionals' perceptions of caring for people from ethnic minorities with poor or no English language skills when accessing health care. METHOD Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 34 healthcare professionals to identify their perception of barriers encountered by those with poor or no English language skills. FINDINGS Five main themes were identi...