Grazyna Nowak - Starz, Dominika Starz, Agnieszka Strzelecka, Tomasz Wojcik, Marta Kortyzon
Institute of Health Sciences, Collegium Medicum, Jan Kochanowski University, Institute of Arts, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Nurs Care
Aim/objective: The aim of the research was to design and create an application as a tool to facilitate the work and improve the level of knowledge in healthcare in the field of transcultural medical care. Background: Multicultural nursing care should be based on both the knowledge about cultural and religious beliefs and values, as well as the understanding of the influence of these unique customs and ways of thinking on the matters of health, life, disease and dying. Design: The timetable and carrying out of the pre-implementation works: choice of religions, choice list of subjects, selecting the content for individual thematic blocks, final stage in this part of the research was to translate the contents into English. Methods: The method of scientific literature review was used in choosing the thematic content. The review included a choice of content in terms of cultural and religious determinants in medical care for selected groups of patients. Results: The result of the carried out research was the development of the TOM (Transcultural Medical Care) application tool which contains the most important information in terms of the medical care of a transcultural patient. Conclusions: The application is a valuable tool which can be used to obtain cultural competences by medical personnel during their education, and is also a tool which improves the professionalism amongst the medical workers
Dominika Starz is affiliated from Institute of Health Sciences, Collegium Medicum, Jan Kochanowski University.
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