HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
This text serves as a guide that is meant to describe beliefs and practices generally found within a particular cultural or religious group.
Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room. To provide optimal care for all patients, it is important to see differences from the patient's perspective and to work with patients from a range of demographics. Caring for Patients from Different Cultures has been a vital resource for nurses and physicians for more than twenty years, offering hundreds of case studies that illustrate crosscultural conflicts or misunderstandings as well as examples of culturally competent health care.
From the University of Washington Medical Center, Culture Clues are tip sheets for clinicians to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from diverse cultures.
OSUWMC Staff Resources
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Caring for Patients from Different Cultures by 