Etnicitetens betydelse för vårdandet : - En kvalitativ studie ur ett sjuksköterskeperspektiv

• Main Author: Olofsson, Malin
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd 2019
• Subjects: ethnicity; nurse’s experiences; transcultural care; qualitative; etnicitet; kvalitativ; sjuksköterskors upplevelser; transkulturell omvårdnad; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-42958

Background: Sweden has developed to a country with great ethnic variation. Previous research shows that knowledge about the patient’s ethnicity is important for the quality and it’s the nurse’s responsibility to ensure that the patient gets god care regarded what ethnicity the patients belong to. Research shows that patients with different ethnicity then the majority has a larger ability to develop illness. Purpose: To describe nurse’s experiences of caring for patients with different ethnicity. Method: A systematic literature review with descriptive syntheses. Results: The result showed that communication barriers, ethnic collision and lack of recourses is the greatest challenge for nurses to provide transcultural care. But at the same time nurse’s experienced that they evolved in a professional level when they experienced that their awareness of the importance of ethnicity as a key too holistic acre. That knowledge got better when they cared for patients with another ethnicity. Conclusion: Nurse’s experienced that it’s challenging to provide god care to patients with different ethnicity. Knowledge of transcultural care is an important key to holistic care. The nurse’s experienced that more knowledge about transcultural care and more recuses in form of time, education and access to professional interpreter as important elements to reach the goal to provide good and individualized care.