Highlights
- •We formed an academic–practice partnership to research culture care challenges.
- •Participants: 6 Hispanic – 6 underserved Caucasian families – 12 healthcare providers.
- •Care themes: family, faith, communication, care integration, meeting basic needs.
- •Outlined specific recommendations for culturally congruent pediatric nursing care.
- •Discussed implications for healthcare organization equitable care delivery.
Culturally congruent care is satisfying, meaningful, fits with people's daily lives,
and promotes their health and wellbeing. A group of staff nurses identified specific
clinical challenges they faced in providing such care for Hispanic and underserved
Caucasian children and families in the pediatric medical–surgical unit of an urban
regional children's hospital in the southeastern U.S. To address these challenges,
an academic–practice partnership was formed between a group of nurse managers and
staff nurses at the children's hospital and nursing faculty and graduate students
at a local, research-intensive public university. Using the culture care theory, the
partners collaborated on a research study to discover knowledge that would help the
nursing staff resolve the identified clinical challenges. Twelve families and 12 healthcare
providers participated. Data analysis revealed five care factors that participants
identified as most valuable: family, faith, communication, care integration, and meeting
basic needs. These themes were used to formulate nursing actions that, when applied
in daily practice, could facilitate the provision of culturally congruent care for
these children and their families. The knowledge generated by this study also has
implications for healthcare organizations, nursing educators, and academic–practice
partnerships that seek to ensure the delivery of equitable care for all patients.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: June 10, 2015
Accepted:
May 3,
2015
Received in revised form:
May 1,
2015
Received:
February 4,
2015
Footnotes
1The authors gratefully acknowledge the patients, families, and providers who participated in this study and the funding provided by the Office of Research and Engagement–Academic Outreach at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, and the Nursing Administration of East Tennessee Children's Hospital.
2Findings documented in this manuscript were presented in October 2014 at the 40th Annual Conference of the (International) Transcultural Nursing Society in Charleston, SC.
3Conflicts of Interest: None.
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