Transcultural Nursing Resources
- Develop a Search Strategy
- Finding Books
- Finding NetLibrary eBooks
- Finding Journal Articles
- E-mail Discusion Lists
- Websites (opens a new window)
- Patient Education Resources (opens a new window)
- 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.
cultur*
social life
custom*
pregnancy care
religio*
- Use Boolean search power to connect search terms:
- Combine synonyms using Boolean "OR" to broaden focus.
- Combine concepts using Boolean "AND" to narrow focus.
Example:
(cultur* OR social life OR custom* OR religio*) AND
You may find it helpful to substitute the name of countries associated with the ethnic group of interest.
(prenatal care OR antenatal care OR pregnancy care OR maternal health) AND
(islam* OR muslim*)
For example: Iran, Jordan, Afghanistan
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 179 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
A collection of over 15,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. This database contains more than 180 nursing books.
eBooks are full text electronic versions that are great for reference and research. Access is limited to one user at a time. If an ebook of interest is being viewed by another user, you can request to be notified when the ebook becomes available. Books are automatically returned for access when there is no activity for a period of 15 minutes in a browser where the book is being viewed.
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
- The Greenwood Encyclopedia of DailyLlife: A Tour Through History from Ancient Times to the Present R390.21 G816 2004
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas R973.0468 O98 2005
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. Connect to the online version. Access is only available from on-campus.
Follow these steps to finding articles:
- If you are searching for an article on a specific topic, click on the Search Within Journal link
- If you have the citation to a specific article
Click on the year and issue number
Scroll thourgh the list of articles in the issue and click on the link to full-text
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
Updated: September 2010