Clinically Applied Medical Ethnography: Relevance to Cultural Competence in Patient Care

摘要: Medical anthropology provides an excellent resource for nursing research that is relevant to clinical nursing. By expanding the understanding of ethnographic beyond ethnicity, nurses can conduct explores patient's constructions and explanatory models health healing how they make meaning out chronic conditions negotiate daily life. These findings have applicability culturally competent care at both organizational or systems level, as well in patient/provider encounter. Individual patient be improved by applying build provider expertise then using a cultural negotiation process individualized care.