Abstract
Nurses must provide culturally competent care in increasingly multicultural health care settings. This article is a reflection on a research study about intercultural dialogue as a means to increasing knowledge and awareness of other cultures. Hermeneutic methodology provides us a way to explore intercultural dialogue as it requires a commitment to a process of emerging understanding and self-transformation through dialogue. Concepts of intercultural dialogue, such as respect, power, willingness to stay in the process, responsibility, vulnerability and the expanding of one's horizons and self-discovery are included in this reflection.
Highlights
Nurses are mandated to provide culturally competent care in a changing and increasingly intercultural world
Much of the nursing literature related to cultural work fits comfortably into dominant western thought processes, which I have found serves to stifle interaction and potential understanding when working with another culture
I was drawn to the tenets of hermeneutics as a way to explore intercultural dialogue as it calls us to understand something from all sides
Summary
Nurses are mandated to provide culturally competent care in a changing and increasingly intercultural world. Competent care requires nurses to engage in an intercultural dialogue which enables them to form meaningful and respectful relations with cultures quite different from their own. They must gather experiences that will support them in working toward understanding the culture and becoming more tolerant of cultural diversity and difference in their practice. Nursing has operated within multicultural work through developing cultural assessment tools, designed to gather information about a client from another culture While these tools are very helpful to nurses, they must be used as a guide only and not as replacement for dialogue and relation building with our multicultural clients. A multitude of multicultural experiences will gradually increase understanding and acceptance at a broader level within our profession
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