Dr Akram.Omeri (nee Salek),OAM,PhD, RN,CTN-A, TCN Scholar (2005) Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing (FACN)
Director, Transcultural Nursing & Health Care Consulting Services
Address: PO Box 4046 Homebush South NSW 2140
Email : akram.omeri@gmail.com
Website: www.drakramomeri.com
Mobile: +61 403 761 488
Telephone: +61 2 9746 9455
Expertise Areas:
Culture care of (Iranians, Immigrant nurses, Refugees, Indigenous People, Cultural competencies)
Transcultural Topics: TCN in Multicultural Australia, The place of TCN in nurse education!!!, TCN: Refugees and Asylum seekers, TCN and Indigenous people, TCN in Global Health,
Cultural Groups: Iranian immigrants/refugees, Afghan refugees, Immigrant nurses, Refugees & Displaced people, Indigenous People,
Clinical Topics: Cultural diversity in Healthcare, Aging in a mono-cultural society, Refugee & Asylum seekers, Child and family (immigrants), Community Health,
Research Methodology: Ethnonursing, Ethnography, Phenomenology, Mixed Methods, Survey method
Reflective Practice
Languages spoken, read/write*:
Persian (Farsi)
English
Studied Arabic and Italian
Certified Translator (NAATI) National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, Canberra, Australia
Select Publications:
Book Chapters
Omeri, A (2015). Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Pathway to Culturally Congruent Practices in TCN Education, Research, and Practice in Australia. In: M McFarland & H B
Wehbe-Alamah. In: Leininger’s Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A worldwide Nursing Theory, 3e. Jones and Bartlett Learning (443-469).
Raymond, L & Omeri, A. (2015). Transcultural Midwifery: Culture Care for Mauritian immigrant Childbearing Families Living in NSW, Australia. In: M McFarland & H B Wehbe –Alamah (2015). Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A worldwide Nursing Theory, 3e. Burlington, MA, Jones & Bartlett Learning (pp.183-249).
Journal Articles
Omeri, A. (2014). Where culture meets care. Nursing Review, issue 10/October (Dedicated to ML on the 40 Anniversary of TCNS)
Omeri, A (2008) Epilogue: advancing transcultural nursing through collaboration. In: A Omeri & M McFarland (2008) (eds.). Advances in Contemporary Transcultural Nursing. Special Issue in TCN 2e Contemporary Nurse Journal 28 (1-2): 207-210.
Omeri A, Lennings C & Raymond, L (2004). Hardiness and transformational coping in asylum seekers: The Afghan experience. Journal of Diversity in Health & Social Care in Community 1(1): 21-30.
Present/Future Directions