Transcultural nursing for practice in EU: Project of cultural diversity

17^th World Congress on Clinical Nursing & Practice

August 29-30, 2018 | Zurich, Switzerland

Azuri Pazit, Lavranos Giagkos and Prodromou Maria

Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
European University Cyprus, Cyprus

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Adv Practice Nurs

Abstract :

The demand for nurses to possess knowledge and skills are necessary to care for all patients who seek help from the health care services. Transcultural nursing has focused on understanding cultures and their specific care needs and how to provide care that fits their lifestyles rather than assuming professional nurses always knowing what is best for them. Positive transcultural communication style of nurses leads to establishment of trust, increasing satisfaction of care and higher quality interactions between nurses and patients. The project transcultural nursing for practice (TNP) from EU focused on developing coherent, comprehensive and easily accessible information, which deals with the specifics of individual cultures focused primarily on treating patients of different cultures in health care facilities like multicultural nursing. Transcultural health care screening questionnaire was created to evaluate the term culture all over the participants in this Erasmus program TNP, (Israel, Cyprus, Denmark, Czech Republic, Spain and Turkey). The questions evaluate cultural care beliefs, values and lifestyles of people to help them to maintain and regain their health and lifestyles. Each European country should include culture diversity in their health system in order to promote cultural care to maintain their health.

Biography :

Azuri Pazit is the Dean at the School of Nursing Science at Academic College of Tel -Aviv Yafo since 2012. she has been a Registered Nurse for over 20 years at The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, and worked as a Head of Quality Assurance in Nursing Administration at the Ministry of Health. From 2017, she is involved in Erasmus+Strategic partnerships transcultural nursing for practice. The creation of the project was based on the current migration situation in Europe. She believes that knowledge of healthcare professionals will contribute to the smooth communication and mutual respect among health professionals and patients.