Caring for patients from different cultures
By: Geri-Ann Galanti.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Transcultural nursing -- United States -- Case studies; Transcultural medical care -- United States -- Case studies; Hospital care -- Psychological aspects -- United States -- Case studies; Ethnopsychology -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Earlier eds. published with subtitle: "case studies from American hospitals."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic concepts -- Communication and time orientation -- Pain -- Religion and spirituality -- Activities of daily living and the body -- Family -- Men and women -- Staff relations -- Birth -- End of life -- Mental health -- Traditional medicine : practices and perspectives -- Making a difference -- Appendix 1 : cultural profiles [African Americans, Anglo Americans, Asians, East Indians, Hispanics (primarily Mexicans), Middle Easterners, Native Americans] -- Appendix 2 : selected religions [Baha’I, Buddhism, Christian Science, Hinduism, Islam. Jehovah’s Witnesses, Judaism, Mormons, Roman Catholicism, Seventh-Day Adventists, Sikhism, Unitarian Universalism] -- Appendix 3 : providing culturally competent care -- Appendix 4 : summary of case studies.