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Transcultural Nursing Resources

• Develop a Search Strategy
• Finding Books
• Finding NetLibrary eBooks
• Finding Journal Articles
• Websites
• E-mail Discusion Lists

Develop a Search Strategy

• Define your topic in the form of a question.

Example: What cultural customs are associated with prenatal care for Muslim women?

• List common synonyms for each concept.
• Truncate where appropriate.

Concept 1	Concept 2	Concept 3
cultur*	prenatal care	islam*
social life	antenatal care	muslim*
custom*	pregnancy care
religio*	maternal health

• Use Boolean search power to connect search terms:
  1. Combine synonyms using Boolean "OR" to broaden focus.
  2. Combine concepts using Boolean "AND" to narrow focus.

Example:

(cultur* OR social life OR custom* OR religio*) AND
(prenatal care OR antenatal care OR pregnancy care OR maternal health) AND
(islam* OR muslim*)

You may find it helpful to substitute the name of countries associated with the ethnic group of interest.
For example: Iran, Jordan, Afghanistan

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Finding Books

Useful subject terms for finding books on transcultural nursing include:

• health behavior
• health research
• transcultural nursing
• transcultural medical care
• case studies
• cross cultural studies
• cultural characteristics
• ethnic groups
• intercultural communication
• multiculturism

In general, a keyword search for terms related to a specific ethnic group will be most useful when searching for books. Discussions related to specific ethnic groups are often a small part of a book. You may need to check the index of books to find information about specific ethnic groups.

Awareness of cultural differences is critical for people working in international business. Books on business etiquette often include helpful information about intercultural communication.

WorldCat 100 million records

This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)

Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.

 

NetLibrary eBooks

To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia University computer network. Examples of books on transcultural nursing include:

• Brady, E. (2001). Healing logics: Culture and medicine in modern health belief systems. Logan , UT: Utah State University Press.
• Ferguson , V. D. (1998). Case studies in cultural diversity: A workbook.
  Sudbury , MA : Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
• Selin, H.& Shapiro, H. (2003). Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-western cultures. Boston: Kluwer.
  
  

Alvernia Library Reference Books

• Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology    R155.82 J14 2006
• Encyclopedia of Multicultural America     R305.8 G151 1996
• Encyclopedia of World Cultures    R306 E56
• Encyclopedia of Death and Dying R 306.9 M167 2003
  
  
  

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Finding Journal Articles

Subject terms in the CINAHL and the National Library of Medicine that are useful to include:

• transcultural nursing
• cross cultural care
• cultural diversity
• cultural sensitivity
• cultural values
• attitude-to-health
• health-behavior
• health-beliefs
• ethnological research

Combine these terms with appropriate terms for the ethnic group you are interested in.

In addition to the Health databases, the Psychology and Sociology databases may have useful information relating transcultural issues to health care. Since they are not health databases the search should include a phrase such as “health care” or “health beliefs” or “nursing” as one concept. Include search terms for a cultural, religious or ethnic group as a second concept..

Electronic Access to Journal of Transcultural Nursing Articles

The full text is available electronically by going to Alvernia’s Catalog and searching for the Journal of Transcultural Nursing.  Access is only available from on-campus.

Follow these steps to finding articles:

1. If you are searching for an article on a specific topic, click on the Search Within Journal link
   
   
   
   
2. If you have the citation to a specific article

Lindgren, T. & Lipson, J. (2004). Finding a way: Afghan women’s experience in community participation. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 15(2), 122-130. doi: 10.1177/1043659603262490

Click on the year and issue number

Scroll thourgh the list of articles in the issue and click on the link to full-text

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Websites

Country Information Websites

The Cultural Profiles Project is an outstanding website with information about "life and customs" of countries worldwide.

Cultural Profiles Project
http://www.cp-pc.ca/english/index.html

Links to additional websites with country information can be found at the Countries & Embassies page of the Internet Reference Library. (This link takes you to a different page).

Transcultural Health Websites

Cross Cultural Health Care Program
http://www.xculture.org/
The CCHCP addresses broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide. (CCHCP)

Diversity Rx
http://www.diversityrx.org/HTML/ESWEL.htm#map
Models, practices, policy, legal and networking resources for delivering health care to diverse populations.

EthnoMed
http://www.ethnomed.org
The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.(EM)

MEDLINEplus Health Information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/populationgroups.html
Links to health news, issues, articles and statistics for different ethnic groups.

Native Health Databases
http://hsc.unm.edu/library/nhd/index.cfm
"Information pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations".

NSW Multicultural Health Projects & Research Directory
http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/mhcs/researchdirectory/view_programs.html
A searchable database for information on diverse ethnic groups.

The Office of Minority Health
http://omhrc.gov/
Statistics and health information on ethnic groups in the United States.

Refugee Health ~ Immigrant Health
http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/refugees.htm
This site provides information on the following cultural groups: Bosnian, Burmese, Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Cuban, Ethiopian/Eritrean, Haitian, Indian, Iraqi, Korean, Kosavar, Kurdish, Laotian/Lao, Liberian, Mexican/Hispanic, Nigerian, Somali, Sudanese, and Vietnamese.

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
http://www2.umdnj.edu/fmedweb/chfcd/resources.htm
Print and online resources in the areas of Health and Healthcare Disparities, Clinical Cultural Competence, Organizational, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Culturally Competent Community and Public Health and Centers of Excellence (Selected).

Transcultural Health Care & Cultural Competence
http://www.transculturalcare.net/
An extensive list of current articles and websites.

Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links
http://web.nmsu.edu/~ebosman/trannurs/index.shtml
A collection of annotated links to articles, surveys, bibliographies, and other resources providing insight on how various populations view medical and health issues. Covers ethnic groups; religious groups; women; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered; and refugees. Also includes New Mexico resources. Searchable and browsable. (LII)

Transcultural Nursing
http://www.culturediversity.org/links.htm
Links to case studies and websites on transcultural nursing.

E-mail Discusion List

GLOBALRN
http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/globalrn.htm
GLOBALRN is a world-wide internet e-mail discussion list on culture and health care issues

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Updated: July 10, 2008

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