Onkologie. 2015:9(1):47-50

Fostering intercultural social interaction in nursing education and clinical practice

Andrea Pokorná

Katedra ošetřovatelství LF Masarykova univerzita v Brně

This paper highlights the globalisation of world and the internationalisation of nursing (patient and health care givers migration) which

has to lead to being embedded into nursing curricula and also clinical practice. Accentuated is the need for effective and practical cooperation

with individuals of different cultures and ethnicity. The main tool for interculturally competent health care professional becomes

effective communication, based on knowledge of the individual patient‘s needs according to the different cultures and their satisfaction,

but with an emphasis on the individuality of the patients and no the group affiliation. Presented is basic model and assumptions for

the socio-cultural competence. The basic mentioned criterion is creating a culturally safe environment for nurses and patients in the

conditions of the Czech nursing system which is still quite a lot ethnocentric.

Keywords: cultural competency, curriculum, nursing, globalisation, internationality

Published: March 10, 2015  Show citation