There are various dynamics that dictate the status of the health care industry in the world today. Transcultural nursing is one of the essential aspects associated with health care in the administration and service delivery of advanced clinical services. One of the essential motivating factors towards embracing transcultural nursing is...

Cultural assimilation could be defined as losing characteristics of one’s own culture to adopt cultural characteristics of another group . Jorge is from Central America where different cultural norms and values than America persist and as a result, he has been having difficulties adjusting into a new culture. Jorge could...

I remember growing up in a big city. I had always been surrounded by lots of people with different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. We lived in a neighborhood that was a slice of the melting pot. Down the street you could knock on anyone’s door and you would find a...

When I think about teaching in the diverse classroom, my response is two-fold. The first part of it is that the diverse classroom is inevitable – not in a good or bad way, but simply a matter of fact. Society is evolving toward less homogeneity, racially and culturally speaking. The...

When people of different cultures meet, they may have difficulty understanding each other because of differences in lifestyle, values, and even languages. That is why it is a useful experience to get to know better people from a different culture and see how similar and different they are from you....