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Contents: Conceptual model and applications: Transcultural caring dynamics in nursing and health care -- The Essence of caring -- Transcultural caring ethics -- Transcultural context for transcultural nursing -- Universal sources -- Transcultural caring inquiry: awareness, understanding, and choice -- Transcultural cultural caring experiences: Transcultural caring competency in tranculturally dynamic communities -- The Border and pueblo: an American Mexican cultural experience -- A Vibrant African American community: the 49ers and the quest for justice -- The Story of a Guatemalan Mayan farmworker -- The Transcultural social and health experience of an Asian Indian widow -- The Cultural, health care, and intermigration experience of a Filipino nurse -- Transcultural diversity within unity in Jamaica: out of many, one people -- Cuban American Transcultural experiences and the Quest for freedom in the United States -- Puerto Rican transcultural and health beliefs in a western New York community -- The Nurse manager in a cardiovascular intensive care unit and the organizational complexity of a hospital culture -- Haitian family's health experience and the public school system -- Elderly native American Navajo'[s heaalth experience in the nursing home culture -- The Transcultural caring experience a Haitian girl and a nurse practitioner in an adolescent correctional facility -- The Heart of suffering mourning, and Healing in the Jewish spiritual culture: a mother's story -- The American Chinese transcultural maternal-child and family experience in China -- Extending hands: transcultural caring in Saudi Arabia -- American nurses and the native people of Ecuador: the transcultural experience of Shamanism -- The Culture of Physical, mental, spiritual, and political/sociocultural illness: healing through education and love -- The Political-legal culture of multiculturalism and interculturality: the story of Canada -- Co-creating the future culture of nursing: trans cultural caring at home and around the world, and space.