Azuri Pazit
Academic College of Tel -Aviv Yafo, Israel
Title: Transcultural nursing for practice in EU: Project of cultural diversity
Biography
Biography: Azuri Pazit
Abstract
The demand on nurses to possess knowledge and skills that are necessary to care for all patients who seek help from the health care services.
transcultural nursing has focused on understanding cultures and their specific care needs and how to provide care that fits their lifestyles rather than assuming professional nurses always knowing what is best for them.
Positive transcultural communication style of nurses leads to establishment of trust, increasing satisfaction of care and higher quality interactions between nurses and patients.
The project "Transcultural Nursing for Practice" (TNP) from EU focused on developing coherent, comprehensive and easily accessible information, which deals with the specifics of individual cultures focused primarily on treating patients of different cultures in health care facilities like multicultural nursing.
Transcultural Health Care Screening Questionnaire was creating to evaluate the term culture all over the participated in this Erasmus Program TNP, (Israel, Cyprus, Denmark, Chest Republic, Spain, Turkey). The questions evaluate cultural care beliefs, values, and lifestyles of people to help them maintain regain, their health, care needs, their lifestyles.
Each European Country should include culture diversity in their Health System in order to promote cultural care to maintain their health