Rev. ed. of: Transcultural communication in nursing / Joan Luckmann. c1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Exploring transcultural communication: Introduction to transcultural communication in nursing -- Transcultural communication building blocks: culture and cultural values -- Enhancing transcultural communication through culturally competent an linguistically appropriate services -- Transcultural communication building blocks: beliefs, behavior and communication -- Transcultural communication stumbling blocks -- Transcultural communication within the Health care subculture -- Developing transcultural communication skills: Exploring transcultural communication as a participant-observer -- Using basic transcultural communication techniques -- Overcoming transcultural communication barriers -- Working with and without an interpreter -- Using transcultural communication to elicit assessment data and develop nursing diagnoses: Eliciting assessment data from the patient, family and interpreters - Developing culturally appropriate nursing diagnosis -- Using transcultural communication skills to plan and implement care: Using transcultural communication to plan, care, explain and instruct -- Using transcultural communication to assist people responding to pain, grief, dying and death -- Transcultural communication skills between health care providers: Fostering transcultural communication with other health care providers -- Organizations and agencies --