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Nursing Within the International Community: A Visionary Experience
Author(s) -
Craman Anne Marie
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1992.tb00358.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , kinship , sociocultural evolution , politics , nursing , common ground , medicine , mental health , mental health care , ethnography , political science , psychology , sociology , psychiatry , anthropology , law , communication
When nurses from other regions, hospitals, or nations gather together, they often experience the exhilaration of sharing ideas and finding common ground. Despite the sociocultural, political, and economic variations between the United States and South Africa, psychiatric/mental health nurses in both countries share similar practice issues and concerns. The article describes how a program that brought a South African chief professional nurse to a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts promoted kinship, scholarship, and improved client care cross‐culturally.