Culture & Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide

Culture & Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide

About the AuthorJuliene G. Lipson, RN, PhD, FAAN is Professor in the Department of Community Health Systems, School of Nursing and faculty in the Medical Anthropology Division of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.Suzanne L. Dibble, RN, DNSc is Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physiological Nursing and Director, Research Support in the Research Center for Symptom Management at the University of California, San Francisco.Pamela A. Minarik, RN, MS, FAAN is Associate Professor, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Program at Yale University School of Nursing and Psychiatric Liaison Clinical Nurse Specialist at Yale-New Haven Hospital.Offering a snapshot of human diversity, Culture and Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide provides guidelines to alert health care providers to the similarities as well as differences within and among people as a starting point toward individualizing care.From the Back CoverThe people of the world can be seen as a tapestry woven of many different strands. Those strands differ in size, shape, color, intensity, age, and place of origin. All strands are integral to the whole; yet each retains an individuality that enriches the beauty of the cloth.