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Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Official Journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society
A Forum for Cultural Competence in Health Care

eISSN: 15527832 | ISSN: 10436596 | Current volume: 35 | Current issue: 5 Frequency: Bi-monthly

Explore the Influence of Culture on Nursing Practice and the Delivery of Health Care...

Dedicated to the advancement of culturally competent and culturally congruent health care, the Journal of Transcultural Nursing discusses important topics that affect nursing and health care clinical practice, research, education, and theory development.

Discover How Culture and Health Care Interrelate

This dynamic and sometimes controversial publication offers practical information about how to deal with diverse cultures on issues that may affect nursing and health care, such as:

  • Birth, including prenatal care, pregnancy, labor, delivery, and post-partum care
  • Rites of passage rituals
  • Definitions of illness
  • Family roles and responsibilities for ill clients
  • Withdrawal of treatment decisions
  • Death and dying
  • Medication and home remedies/treatments
  • Nutrition and diet
  • Reactions to mental illness
  • Symptom management
  • Racially abusive clients
  • Caring for the older adult
  • Managing culturally diverse work forces
  • Culturally appropriate communication, diagnoses, interventions and standards of care

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing also offers nurses, educators, researchers, and practitioners theoretical approaches and current research findings that have direct implications for the delivery of culturally congruent health care and for the preparation of health care professionals who will provide that care.

A Comprehensive Approach

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing includes intriguing and critical articles on

  • Research, including both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, evaluation, and validity and reliability issues
  • Theory Development, including conceptual models and theories currently used to guide culturally congruent health care.
  • Education, including pedagogy, tools for increasing cultural awareness, integrating transcultural nursing concepts into the academic curricula and staff development programs, and teaching culturally diverse nursing students.
  • Clinical Practice, including practical applications of research findings to clinical practice, such as adapting end-of-life care to the needs of specific ethnic populations, developing a hospital-based website with culture-specific information for both staff and patients, and culture assessment tools.
  • International Department, including collaborative international research models, international consultation, and government and non-government health policy formation
  • Information Resources, including methods of accessing information concerning transcultural nursing or health care will be the major emphasis of this department. Articles regarding library searches, web page listings, internet resources, computer software packages and topics on informatics related to the journal’s subject matter are encouraged. In addition, book reviews, critiques of videotapes or educational materials, annotated bibliographies and similar brief reports are welcomed.

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing is at the forefront of promoting the creation of standards for transcultural nursing practice, professional competency, and clinical practices. It also keeps you in touch with the Journal of Transcultural Nursing Society's news and events.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing is the official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society.

The aim of the journal is to serve as a forum for nurses and interprofessional teams to publish cutting edge research, theory, and evidence-based practice related to culture and healthcare.
The scope of the journal is to disseminate peer-reviewed transcultural nursing science which serves as a foundation for promoting care that is congruent with the cultural care values of individuals, families, communities, and populations globally. Transcultural nursing science is the culture of caring behaviors that may be associated with age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, class, religion, social determinants of health, organizational norms, and public policy. Transcultural nurses promote health equity among those they serve.
Editor-in-Chief
Senior Editors
Patti Ludwig-Beymer, PhD, RN, CTN, FTNSS, FAAN Purdue University, Hammond, IN, USA
Rick Zoucha, PhD, APRN-BC, CTN-A, FTNSS, FAAN Duquesne University School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Associate Editors
Julie M. Buser, PhD University of Michigan, USA
Katherine Bydalek, PhD, MSN, FNP-BC University of South Alabama, USA
Valerie Eschiti, PhD, RN, CHTP, AHN-BC, FTNSS University of Oklahoma, Lawton, OK, USA
Violeta Lopez, PhD, RN, FACN Central Queensland University, Queensland, Australia
Dorthe Nielsen, PhD, RN, MSH, FTNSS University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Jehad Omar Al-Halabi, Ph.D., RN, FTNSS Middle East University, Amman, Jordan
Priscilla L. Sagar, EdD, RN, ACNS-BC, CTN-A, FTNSS, FAAN Mount St. Mary College, NY, USA
Reimund Serafica, PhD, MSN, RN, FTNSS University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Leilani Siaki, PhD, FNP-BC Tripler Army Medical Center, Kapolei, HI, USA
Melanie T. Turk, PhD, RN, FTNSS Duquesne University School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Managing Editor
Elizabeth Marshall Towson, MD, USA
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  • Sexual Diversity Studies (formerly Gay & Lesbian Abstracts)
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