Transcultural Nursing Goals and Challenges for 1991 and Beyond

Proposed Standards for Transcultural Nursing

Transcultural concepts in nursing care.

This text provides a comprehensive framework for providing culturally competent nursing care to individuals, families, groups, communities and institutions. We begin with a synthesis of transcultural theories, models, and research studies. It is our intent to provide transcultural knowledge that can be useful in nursing care. The text actually began in 1989 as a collegial effort by novice trans...

Core curriculum for transcultural nursing and health care.

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing, the TCNS, and SAGE have collaborated to publish a new concept in journals publishing, a Core Curriculum for Transcultural Nursing and Health Care. The Core Curriculum is the culmination of many years of research, drawing from the fields of social and behavioral science, philosophy, and nursing to establish a core of knowledge that supports transcultural nur...

Global Migrations, Ethical Imperatives for Care, and Transcultural Nursing Research.

#WorldOnTheMove All of the world’s 7.4 billion souls are affected, in some way, by the unprecedented humanmigration occurring everywhere. The United Nations (2016) estimated that, last year, 244 million people were international migrants living in a country other than where they were born, an uptick of 41% from 2000. Internal migration—change of residence within national borders—is difficult to...

Genealogies and Challenges of Transcultural Studies

My introductory essay discusses some of transculturalism’s enduring conceptual challenges from the perspective of the history of German cultural and political theory. I am particularly interested in the discursive space between Immanuel Kant’s individualism and Johann Gottfried Herder’s and Moses Mendelssohn’s concepts of cultural identity. My hope is that such a discussion can enrich some of o...