Overview

Editors:

John Daly
University of Technology Sydney, NSW

Debra Jackson
University of Western Sydney, NSW

What a joy it is to see this occur during this heightened era of transcultural nursing worldwide...in a country that is truly multicultural....with professional nurses to care for the different.

Madeleine M Leininger, PhD RN FAAN FRCNA Founder of Transcultural Nursing

Advances in Contemporary Transcultural Nursing is the first (and only) Australian reader on transcultural nursing in our region. Eighteen articles, case studies and editorials provide a reminder of the moral importance of care as a universal but culturally constructed service at the heart of nursing education and practice.

Ethnocentric expressions of health care may be non-therapeutic and even harmful. A failure to practice culturally informed nursing could result in people receiving 'toxic service' rather than therapeutic care.

Olga Kanitski AM, Foundation Professor of Transcultural Nursing, RMIT University.

Grouped into four parts, articles address the impact of globalisation and nursing education, understanding culture and health, and the impact of migration on cardiovascular and mental health. Studies include meeting diversity challenges in Australia, cross cultural; nursing in New Zealand, critical thinking in nurse education in Japan, aged care and self-care in Hong Kong, coronary heart diseases in Indian immigrants and Indigenous communities, comparative mental health in Thailand and methods for co-operative inquiry with Indigenous communities.

Advances in Contemporary Transcultural Nursing is widely used as a discounted set of readings for tertiary nursing courses on society, culture and health and professional development courses to raise cultural competence.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Madeleine Leininger
Akram Omeri
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Foreword

Transcultural nursing and challenging the status quo
Olga Kanitsaki AM
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Preface

Transcultural health care: Issues and challenges for nursing
John Daly and Debra Jackson
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Globalization: Nursing Education, Research And Clinical Practice

Globalisation as we enter the 21st century: Reflections and directions for nursing education, science, research and clinical practice
Patricia M Davidson, Afaf Meleis, John Daly and Marilyn Douglas
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Meeting diversity challenges: Pathway of 'advanced' transcultural nursing practice in Australia
Akram Omeri
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A study of clinical nursing research priorities in Hong Kong aged care
Esther Chang, Carey Kit, Bing. Ho, Anders Chi Man Yuen and Deborah Hatcher
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Critical thinking in nursing education and practice in Japan: Foreign-trained Japanese nursing scholars' perceptions of its integration
Asako Kawashima
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Culture and Health

The impact of migration on health beliefs and behaviours: the case of Ethiopian refugees in the UK
Rena Papadopoulos, Maggie Lay, Shelley Lees, Alem Gebrehiwot
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Nursing people from cultures other than one's own: A perspective from New Zealand
Deb Spence
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Indigenous health status: the nurse's role in moving beyond the rhetoric
Denise Wilson
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Co-operative inquiry: the development of a visual impairment prevention program initiative for two Aboriginal communities in South Australia
Meri King and Sarah Baxter
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Transmission of health knowledge and health practices from men to boys among Aboriginal communities and non-Indigenous Australians: Searching for evidence
Tom A Laws and Helen Bradley
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Testing Orem's Self-Care Agency and Basic Conditioning Factors in a Chinese Community Undergoing Haemodialysis
May S. M. Fok and Thomas K.S.Wong
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Cardiovascular Health

Coronary heart disease in Indians: A review of literature
Shantala Mohan, Lesley M Wilkes and Debra Jackson
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The first 12 weeks following discharge from hospital:The experience of Gujarati South Asian survivors of myocardial infarction and their families
Rosemary A.Webster, David R.Thompson and Patricia M. Davidson
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Coronary heart disease in Aboriginal Communities: Towards a model for self-management
Vicki Wade, Debra Jackson and John Daly
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 The effects of education on anxiety among Chinese patients with heart disease undergoing cardiac catheterization in Hong Kong
Dominic Shung, Kit Chan and Heung Wan Cheung
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Mental Health

 Assessment of inpatient treatment of mentally ill patients in Thailand
Robert L. Anders, Darawan Thapinta, Srinuan Wiwatkunupakan,Voranut Kitsumban and Siriluck Vadtanapong
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Nurse faculty perceptions regarding psychiatric-mental health nursing behavioral interventions: A cross-cultural comparison
Clinton E. Lambert, Vickie A. Lambert, Patricia M. Davidson, Robert Anders, Louise O'Brien, Jintana Yunibhand,Thomas Wong, Sook Lee, Sunah Kim and Masashi Kawano
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Epilogue

Culture, health and social justice
Debra Jackson
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Acknowledgment of Peer Reviewers
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