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"Compliance" issues: Is the client non-compliant or is the plan of care culturally incongruent?
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Birth & rites of passage rituals that impact health care practice.
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Cultural assessment instruments.
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Cultural beliefs about pregnancy, labor and delivery and post-partum care.
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Cultural definitions of illness.
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Family roles and responsibilities for ill clients: How does the nurse help the family meet its role expectations with the family member who is ill?
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Hospice care and advanced directives (withdrawal of treatment issues).
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Interpreters: What are the benefits and drawbacks to using interpreters in health care?
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Issues in Death and Dying (e.g. prolongation of life, autopsy, care of the body after death).
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Medications and home remedies.
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Mental health/illness: What does the nurse need to know about the cultural values and perspectives of mental illness of the client and family?
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Nutrition & diet: How can the nurse integrate a prescribed therapeutic diet into the client's culturally-specific ways of preparing foods.
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Patient education: How does the client's culture affect the method and content of patient education (e.g. prenatal care, discharge planning, newly diagnosed diabetics, etc.).
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Radically-abusive clients: How does the nurse respond to radically-insensitive clients?
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Symptom management: How does culture affect the patient's perspective of his/her symptoms, and how does it affect the nurse's assessment of these symptoms?
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Taxonomy of culturally appropriate diagnoses, interventions and standards of care.
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Transcultural perspectives in the care of the elderly.
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Transcultural verbal and nonverbal communication methods.
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Use of culture care theory as well as sociological and anthropological theories to guide clinical practice.
