Transcultural Communication in Health Care
Transcultural Communication in Health Care Books
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In today’s complex health care workplace health care professionals must be able to communicate with clients who converse in different languages, and come from distinct cultural backgrounds. They must be able to know and show compassion for the different cultures, lifestyles, traditions, and expectations they will encounter. The goal of this matter-of-fact book is to help health care professionals expand their perspectives and to develop the skills and techniques needed to work and communicate effectively with clients and other health professionals in a multicultural environment. This text also contains self-assessment and self-evaluation exercises. Help health care professionals: * Reflect on their own cultural perspectives. * Overcome their biases * Communicate effectively in a transcultural environment. (health care, communication, values, culture)
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I recently ordered a textbook from a third party through Amazon.com which turned out to be a terrible experience for me. The seller never sent me the book and didn’t bother to contact Amazon or me to initiate reimbursement of my funds. I contacted the seller after nearly two weeks of not receiving the book and he stated “The book was shipped… Standard shipping. Standard Shipping is media mail, it may possibly take awhile.. But it was shipped.”(verbatim)It has now been over a month since I brought this textbook and never received. After contacting the seller a second time which he never responded I called Amazon.com customer service. I received my book from another website at a cheaper price, but I am still coming up for Amazon to reimburse my money. Therefore I cannot offer a rating for this product because I never received it from the seller (Sean)
Rating: 1 / 5
This is a comprehensive, well-organized, matter-of-fact guide in transcultural communication. The unique features such as the self-assessment exercises, self-evaluation exercises, diary, and end-of-chapter questions are particularly motivating and instructive to the beginner transcultural communication practitioner. Although the book is do-oriented, mentioning the contribution of Leininger to transcultural nursing theory would have been apt.
Another unique feature that I liked is the discussion of culturally apt nursing diagnoses. It clarifies why the NANDA taxonomy may be culturally biased and provides recommendations for writing more culturally apt nursing diagnoses.
Another feature is the chapter on working with interpreters. It provides guidelines for working with and without interpreters.. I reckon a section on sign-language or deaf-interpreters would have been a nice addition. There are also on-line translation resources that are now available.
I also liked the annotated list of books and films. I would suggest adding books such as by nurse-anthropologist Jody Glittenberg, “To the mountain and back”, of her experiences as a nurse and anthropologist in Guatemala.
I reviewed the 1999 paperback edition.
Rating: 4 / 5