Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care by Gloria Kersey-Matusiak
2nd edition - Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care, Second Edition, explores the cross-cultural interactions and conflicts between nurses and the diverse array of patients they may see. Culturally competent nurses can cut through preconceptions, reduce health disparities, and deliver high-quality care as they encounter patients from a range of backgrounds and beliefs.
Publication Date: 2018
Disability As Diversity by Lisa Meeks, Leslie Neal-Boylan
1st edition - Disability as Diversity helps to contextualize disability inclusion in health-care education as a function of social justice and a mechanism of reducing health care disparities for patients. This resource connects the moving parts necessary to ensure equal access for qualified students and provides a blueprint for crafting policy, proactive messaging, improving climate, adhering to accreditation standards, addressing licensing and board exams, responding to student failure, all while remaining compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable Federal regulations.
Publication Date: 2020
Fast Facts about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Nursing: Building Competencies for an Antiracism Practice by Sandra Davis, Anne-Marie O'Brien
Delivers a comprehensive toolbox for understanding race and racism at structural, institutional, and individual levels This nursing handbook introduces and defines key terms about race and racism for nurses, nursing students, and nurse educators. It addresses how race and racism act as structural and core social determinants of health and propel health inequities. It moves beyond a focus on multicultural approaches for understanding inequity toward a recognition of the broader impact that both systemic and structural racism have had on inequality in health and life opportunities.
Publication Date: 2023
Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory by Marilyn R. McFarland, Hiba B. Wehbe-Alamah
3rd edition - Leininger's Culture Care Diversity And Universality provides an expanded view of the Culture Care Theory as well as integral components of the Ethno-nursing Research Method. The theoretical framework of the culture care theory is used to inform research, teaching and practice. It is a holistic and comprehensive nursing theory focused on discovering relationships among and between care and health phenomena related to wellness, health, disabilities and death for people from diverse cultures. The use of the CCT with new research methodologies such as meta-ethno-nursing as well as other established qualitative methods is also covered.
Publication Date: 2015
LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity by Michele J. Eliason, Peggy L. Chinn
3rd edition - Drawn from real-world experience and current research, this updates text paves the way for healthcare professionals to provide well-informed, culturally sensitive healthcare to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients. This vital guide fills the LGBTQ awareness gaps, including replacing myths and stereotypes with facts, and measuring the effects of social stigma on health. Vital for all nursing specialties, this is a guide to actively providing appropriate, culturally sensitive care to persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Publication Date: 2018