Mary Curry Narayan, PhD, RN, HHCNS-BC, CTN-A, FTNSS

Expertise Areas:

• Application of transcultural nursing principles to home health care
• Intersectional of culture-sensitive care with patient-centered care.
• Development of excellence in home-based nursing practice through research and international partnerships
• International Scope and Standards for Home Healthcare Nursing Practice
• Qualitative research methods, especially grounded theory

Languages spoken, read/write*:

English and can read Spanish

Select Publications:

Narayan, M. C., Mallinson, R. K. (2022). Transcultural nurse views on culture-sensitive/patient-centered assessment and care-planning: A descriptive study. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 33(2), 150-160. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28826334

Narayan, M. C. (2019). Cultural competence in home healthcare nursing: Disparity, cost, regulatory, accreditation, ethical and practice issues. Home Health Care Management and Practice, 32(2), 76-80. doi.org/10.1177/1084822319883818.

Narayan, M. C. (2019). Addressing implicit bias in nursing. American Journal of Nursing, 119(7), 36-43.

Narayan, M.C., & Scafide, K. N. (2017). Systematic review of racial/ethnic disparities in home healthcare.  Journal of Transcultural Nursing (28), 6, 598-607.

Narayan, M. C. (2010).  Culture’s effects on pain assessment and management. American Journal of Nursing, 110(4), 38-47. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20335689

Present/Future Directions 

Currently, in partnership with the International Home Care Nursing Organization and the American Nurses Association, I am co-leading a multi-year project to develop the International Scope and Standards for Home-Based Nursing Practice.  The purpose of this project is to promote high-quality nursing care in people’s homes around the world for people at all stages of life with all kinds of health problems and issues. This project has included research with about 200 home healthcare nurses in almost 40 countries. My transcultural nursing knowledge and skills are proving helpful in working with nurses worldwide to envision and promote excellence in home health care nursing with equitable, high-quality, patient-centered/culture-sensitive care for people in their homes all around the world.

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Updated 09/2025