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Transcultural Nursing Resources

This is a brief guide to selected sources of information on transcultural nursing. Transcultural nursing is an area of study and practice that focuses on providing culturally competent health care to people worldwide. The first listings on this page are databases to which the UIC Library subscribes. These can be accessed by anyone from the Library of the Health Sciences or elsewhere on the UIC campus. Access from other locations is limited to UIC students, faculty, and staff who have a valid netID and password. A link to freely available web sources is also included, as are books in the LHS collection. This is not a comprehensive list of resources. For further assistance please ask for help at Information Services desk.

Databases | Web Resources | Books | Journals


Databases

  • MeSH/PubMed
    This link takes you to MeSH, the Medical Subject Headings database. Search in this database with the term "Transcultural Nursing" (or other related terms), to find the "official" names MeSH uses for the subject you have in mind. Then, switch into the PubMed database (you can also do this from within MeSH) and use the term(s) you found to find articles. MeSH and PubMed are available to the general public for free, but UIC faculty, staff, and students can enter a version of PubMed that includes links to many online full-text journals.
  • Native Health Databases
    This link takes you to a site with two databases with health information for, by, and about Native Americans of the United States, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. For articles published before 1966, search the Native Health History Database; for articles after 1966, search the Native Health Research Database.

Web Sites

The following websites may be useful in finding information on transcultual nursing:

  • CulturedMed
    Refugee and Ethnic health resources from SUNY Utica/Rome

  • Diversity Rx
    Models and practices, policy, legal, and networking resources

  • EthnoMed
    This site from Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington covers Amharic, Eritrean, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean, Cambodian and, Vietnamese cultures, along with other articles of interest

  • Medical Informatics for the Hispanic Center of Excellence
    From the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, this is a Latin@ health subject guide with news, resources, and other related information. Includes specific sections on consumer health and border health, and general resources on cultural competency.

  • National Alliance for Hispanic Health
    Web site with extensive resources on Hispanic/Latin@ health and health care. Includes fact sheets, publications, and links to hotlines and helplines. Information is available in Spanish and English.

  • National Women's Health Information Center
    Health information from federal sources for women.

  • New York Online Access to Health/Acceso Computerizado de la Salud en Nueva York
    Web site with consumer health information in Spanish and English. Includes alphabetical and subject indexes for health topics.

  • Office of Minority Health
    Health information from federal sources for U.S. minorities.

  • Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
    SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages is a joint initiative of the South Cove Community Health Center and Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library of Massachusetts. The project aims to increase electronic access to health information for Asian American consumers and their health care providers, and to provide consumer information in the languages of the community served, specifically Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laotian.

  • Transcultural Nursing Society An international group of nurses (and other healthcare professionals) working together to meet the society's mission statement: "To ensure that the culture care needs of people around the world will be met by nurses prepared in transcultural nursing."

  • U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission
    Resources for health care providers and consumers. Information in English and Spanish

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Books

To locate books about transcultural nursing use UICCAT, the library's online catalog. Suggested search phrases are: transcultural nursing, transcultural medicine, multicultural nursing or cultural diversity AND nursing.

We have a solid collection of works related to transcultural nursing. Here are some examples of just a few books that we have available. The books are listed with the most current first. For additional books relevant to transcultural nursing, please browse the area WA300 through WA380 in the bookstacks, second floor.

  • Health and Healing in Comparative Perspective
    edited by Elizabeth D. Whitaker
    Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006
    GN296 H434 2006

  • Cultural Changes in Attitudes Toward Death, Dying, and Bereavement
    Bert Hayslip, Jr., Cynthia A. Peveto.
    Springer Pub. Co., 2005
    BF789 D4 H425c 2005

  • Spirituality, Health, and Healing
    Caroline Young, Cyndie Koopsen
    Slack, 2005
    WB880 Y69s 2005

  • Accessing Health Care: Responding to Diversity
    edited by Judith Healy and Martin McKee
    Oxford University Press, 2004
    WA300 A169 2004

  • Caring for Women Cross-Culturally
    edited by Patricia F. St. Hill, Julene G. Lipson, Afaf Ibahim Meleis
    F.A. Davis Company, 2003
    WY107 C277 2003

  • Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care
    edited by Margaret M. Andrews, Joyceen S. Boyle
    Lippincott, 2008
    WY107 T772 2008

  • Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research & Practices
    Madeleine Leininger
    McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2002
    WY107 L531t 2002

  • Handbook of Multicultural Assessment: Clinical, Psychological, and Educational Applications
    edited by Lisa A. Suzuki, Joseph G. Ponterotto, Paul J. Meller
    Jossey-Bass, 2008
    WM145 H236 2008

  • Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness
    Rachel E. Spector
    Prentice Hall Health, 2004
    WA30 S741c 2004

  • Asian Voices: Asian and Asian American Health Educators Speak Out
    edited by Lin Zhan
    Jones and Bartlett, 1999
    WA300 A832 1999

  • Case Studies in Cultural Diversity: a Workbook
    edited by Vernice D. Ferguson
    Jones and Bartlett, 1999
    WY106 C337 1999

  • Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention
    edited by Joyce Newman Giger, Ruth Elaine Davidhizar
    Mosby, 1999
    WY87 T77151 1999

  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
    by Anne Fadiman
    the Noonday Press, 1998
    WL 385 F145s 1998

  • Pocket Guide to Cultural Assessment
    Elaine M. Geissler
    Mosby, 1998
    WY49 G313p 1998

  • Transcultural Health Care: a Culturally Competent Approach
    edited by Larry D. Purnell, Betty J. Paulanka
    F.A. Davis, 2003
    W84 DA2 T7 2003

  • Cultural Diversity in Nursing: Issues, Strategies, and Outcomes
    edited by Jacqueline A. Dienemann
    American Academy of Nursing, 1997
    WY107 C968 1997

  • Culture & Nursing Care: a Pocket Guide
    edited by Juliene G. Lipson, Suzanne L. Dibble, Pamela A. Minarik
    UCSF Nursing Press, 1996
    WY49 C968 1996

  • Hispanic voices: Hispanic Health Educators Speak Out
    edited by Sara Torres
    NLN Press, 1996
    WA300 H673 1996

  • Madeleine Leininger: Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory
    Cheryl L. Reynolds, Madeleine Leininger
    Sage Publications Inc., 1993
    WY101 R462m 1993

  • Teaching Transcultural Care: a Guide for Teachers of Nursing and Health Care
    Paula McGee
    Chapman & Hall; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Singular Pub. Group, 1992
    WY18 M145t 1992

  • Transcultural Nursing (sound recording)
    Madeleine Leininger
    Teach 'em, 1978
    WY87 T7723 1978

  • Transcultural Nursing: a Book of Readings
    edited by Pamela J. Brink
    Prentice-Hall, 1976
    WY87 T772 1976
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Journals

  • Canadian Nurse

  • Imprint

  • Journal of Immigrant Health

  • The Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health

  • Journal of Transcultural Nursing

    Included as a special supplement of Nursing Standard, is "An Essential Guide to Cultural and Spiritual Awareness". This is shelved with Nursing Standard, January 5th 2005, volume 19, issue 17.

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