Kurrikulumrealisering in transkulturele verpleging

M.Cur.Transcultural nursing transcends cultural boundaries . the nurse belongs to one cultural group and the patient to another. The aim of transcultural nursing is to provide the patient with culture-congruent care; care from the context of the patient's culture. Culture-congruent care should be a core, not a peripheral matter in the nursing of patients. To be able to give culture-congruent care, nurses need specific training. Nursing education is based on a curricula which should reflect the society of which both the nurse and patient is a member. The curricula must empower the nurse to function in this society. Tho aim of this study is to determine the degree of realisation of transcultural aspects in the course that leads to registration as a nurse (general, psychiatric and community) and midwife to be able to describe guidelines for culture-congruent care. The aim is expounded by way of a contextual, investigative and descriptive study wherein criteria for transcultural nursing have been identified and described in order to describe guidelines for culture-congruent nursing. The guidelines for culturally congruent care is based on the philosophical viewpoints of the Nursing Theory for the Whole Person. The results of the research show that the transcultural content in the current curricula is uncoordinated and that nursing lecturers are unprepared for presenting and evaluating transcultural content