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Volume 1, Issue 1 J Nurs Res Pract Nursing Care & Breast Congress 2017
December 11-13, 2017
December 11-13, 2017 | Rome, Italy
Joint Event
&
45th WORLD CONGRESS ON NURSING CARE
8TH EUROPEAN BREAST CONGRESS
Difficulties in nursing care for culturally distinct patients
Sylwia Lisowska1, Monika Rogóż1 , and Renata Bakalarz1
1Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland
The phenomenon of migration is common around the world nowadays. More often patients from foreign lands can be
encountered at the hospital. This situation requires adjusting current norms to whatever may be necessary when dealing
with another culture. Preparation and acquiring expertise of caring for a culturally different patient is the fundamental in
proper nursing education. Yet it is still common that communication between and caring for representatives of foreign cultures
is difficult for nurses. Acquiring the opinion of nurses and obstetricians on the most common difficulties related to caring of
patients of culturally different origin. Research
Methods: In order to conduct the research, a self-made questionnaire was used. 120 nurses and obstetricians were involved
in the research conducted at the Specialized Zeromski Hospital in Cracow, Poland, between September and November 2017.
Conclusion: Study shows that the individuals with previous positive experience in caring for a patient from a different
cultural background most often encountered problems with communication and refusal to perform certain actions, whilst those
with negative experience had issues with communication and lack of cooperation. During the studies, no crucial correlation
between the education nor work experience and problems with verbal and non-verbal communication was found among the
caregivers of foreign patients. There also seem to be no link between positive or negative experience with culturally-diverse
patients and issues with verbal and non-verbal communication.
Keywords: nursing care, cultural distinctness, multiculturalism, migration, communication.
Biography
Sylwia Lisowska has completed her Master studies at the age of 24 years in 2010 from Silesian Medical University in Katowice, Poland. She is currently in third
year of PhD studies at the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum. She works as a midwife in a Stefan Żeromski Specialist Hospital. She works as a academic
teacher at the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracov University since 2011 as a menager of practical classes the subject of Obstetrics and Gynecology and cooperates
with the Małoposka Regional Chamber of Nurses and Midwifes in Kraków. She’s the author of papers in journals and participates in national and international
conferences.
Sylwia Lisowska et al., J Nurs Res Pract 2017, 1:1(Suppl)