Abstract
Last decade, the geography of immigration in Portugal experienced intense transformations with an increasing inflow of new and diversified migratory groups. An open questionnaire was developed and applied to 22 Portuguese nurses, aiming to analyse personal experiences and significant situations of nursing care in multicultural contexts. The understanding of hospital routines, difficulties in managing physical space due to different cultural standards, body exposure, and body handling in nursing clinical care, emerged as more significant issues in reports of critical incidents focusing on multicultural contexts.
Highlights
During the last decade, the geography of immigration in Portugal experienced intense transformations in terms of recruitment and patterns of geographic settlement, with an increasing and exponential inflow of new and diversified migratory groups
This means that psychiatric and mental health nurses work in diverse health units, both in hospitals and primary care
Mental health nurses who are placed in multi-specialty teams can contribute to a larger promotion of culturally sensitive health care across the entire health system
Summary
The geography of immigration in Portugal experienced intense transformations in terms of recruitment and patterns of geographic settlement, with an increasing and exponential inflow of new and diversified migratory groups. The Portuguese health care system is still struggling to address some of the specific challenges presented by recent legal and illegal immigration from Brazil, Central and Eastern Europe and China, as well as more traditional immigration from Africa [1]. These populations have linguistic, cultural and sociodemographic specificities, which are very different from the general Portuguese population. This makes them a paradigmatic case in potential transcultural nursing studies. For transcultural nursing, which integrated or systematized the contributions of Anthropology, studies on health problems in migrant populations and minority ethnic groups, the analysis of cultural variations in the subjective experience of illness or the issue of cultural sensitivity of nursing care is significant [2].
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