Abstract
M.Cur.
Transcultural nursing transcends cultural boundaries . the nurse belongs to one
cultural group and the patient to another. The aim of transcultural nursing is to
provide the patient with culture-congruent care; care from the context of the
patient's culture. Culture-congruent care should be a core, not a peripheral matter in
the nursing of patients.
To be able to give culture-congruent care, nurses need specific training. Nursing
education is based on a curricula which should reflect the society of which both the
nurse and patient is a member. The curricula must empower the nurse to function in
this society.
Tho aim of this study is to determine the degree of realisation of transcultural aspects
in the course that leads to registration as a nurse (general, psychiatric and
community) and midwife to be able to describe guidelines for culture-congruent care.
The aim is expounded by way of a contextual, investigative and descriptive study
wherein criteria for transcultural nursing have been identified and described in order
to describe guidelines for culture-congruent nursing. The guidelines for culturally congruent
care is based on the philosophical viewpoints of the Nursing Theory for the
Whole Person.
The results of the research show that the transcultural content in the current curricula
is uncoordinated and that nursing lecturers are unprepared for presenting and
evaluating transcultural content.