As a nurse, my experience with a patient whom I was treating who did not speak English well was difficult because I did not speak her native language and wanted to get a translator. However, she grew increasingly impatient and frustrated and started to scream from her hospital bed. I...

The establishment of the novel, The Help, has brought about a heated debate on how Kathryn Stockett’s created and accurately portrayed the life and experience of a Black American women. The entire plot of the book revolves around the atrocities experienced by African American particularly, black domestic workers, due to...

Madeleine Leininger, founder of the transcultural nursing movement, identified eight specific reasons why transculturalism is imperative to the practice of nursing. As presented in Boyle & Andrews (2015), Leininger explained that there is an increasing tendency for globalization, or the movement of people across international boundaries, which calls for an...

I once heard a news reporter refer to the United States as the “melting pot” of cultures. At first, I did not know what it meant. Then I asked one of my closest friends what he understood by it, and he explained to me that there is no culturally diverse...

Cultural diversity is an important competency for all health care professionals to develop regardless of their expertise and years of experience. A real challenge for leaders and managers whose backgrounds differ from staff is “fitting in” and being included. Unfortunately these differences in cultural backgrounds can have a negative impact...