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Use of Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model by Health Professions
Author(s) -
Dowd Steven B.,
Giger Joyce Newman,
Davidhizar Ruth
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international nursing review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1466-7657
pISSN - 0020-8132
DOI - 10.1046/j.1466-7657.45.no.4issue340.6.x
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , witness , transcultural nursing , nursing , health care , cultural diversity , psychology , cultural competence , sociology , engineering ethics , medicine , pedagogy , political science , anthropology , law , engineering
Nursing science is increasingly gaining recognition. Witness the growing use by other disciplines of nursing's models and ideas. One example is the adoption of the Giger and Davidhizar Model of Transcultural Assessment by non‐nursing disciplines to understand and address the needs of a pluralistic multicultural society. Below the authors describe a model to understand culturally diverse clients and show how health professions are using it to provide culturally competent care.