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School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
themes lead to consensus and three themes emerged from the
findings.
Summary of key finding
The main themes to emerge from the focus group interviews are:
dealing with cultural issues at the “coal face”; how to access and
use the interpreter service and finally, planning and taking action to
improve nursing care for patients from a different culture.
Conclusions
A number of recommendations for improving nursing people of
different cultures are proposed, namely: promote an ethos of
providing culturally competent and culturally safe nursing to
patients of another culture; to improve the resources available to
nurses; the provision of easier access to formal interpreter services
with continuity of interpreters for patients and finally an increase in
transcultural nursing education.
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