Background With the recent growth of multicultural families in the Korean society, the importance of the role of qualified visiting nurses in the delivery of culturally sensitive health care has grown dramatically. As the primary health care provider for multicultural families enrolled in public community-based health care centers, the cultural competence of visiting nurses is an essential qual...

BACKGROUND Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, particularly for respiratory tract infections (RTI) in ambulatory care, has become a worldwide public health threat due to resulting antibiotic resistance. In spite of various interventions and campaigns, wide variations in antibiotic use persist between European countries. Cultural determinants are often referred to as a potential cause, but are...

The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) believes that cultural competence is a critical factor in providing quality cancer care to an increasingly diverse patient population (ONS, 1999). Nurses and their interdisciplinary colleagues should be educated comprehensively to foster sensitivity and responsiveness to issues of diversity. ONS (1999) issued guidelines and identified four components of educat...

Recent publications have highlighted alternative analytical thinking strategies to inform and facilitate improved intelligence analysis. Red teaming, fast and slow thinking, divergent thinking, as well as other strategies have been identified as essential to understanding today's radically different, nontraditional landscape that analysts and collectors are expected to operate in: to understand...

Joseph Conrad is a Polish born English writer who immigrated or expatriated to many different cultural backgrounds. He considered marginal man, restless figure all through his life, and man in exile, without root of no belonging. The identity once was one Conrad’s overriding concerns, that dominated much personal public life. Poland, but not spiritually bred educated by culture; he finally sett...

When one learns a certain language, he/she should also learn its culture. This is because languages and cultures are integrated. For example, to acquire meanings, language students need understand the culture of they learning. study seeks determine challenges faced by English learners in understanding Islamic beliefs western cultures. was descriptive qualitative that utilized semi-structured in...