Defining cultural diversities experienced in patient care by nursing students in eastern Turkey

Tortumluoglu G., OKANLI A., ÖZYAZICIOĞLU N., AKYIL R.

NURSE EDUCATION TODAY, vol.26, no.2, pp.169-175, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 26 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2006
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.nedt.2005.08.008
  • Journal Name: NURSE EDUCATION TODAY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.169-175
  • Keywords: nursing students, cultural diversity, patient care, COMPETENCE, EDUCATION
  • Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the cultural diversities that nursing students experience between the patients and themselves while providing care to patients and to find the effects of the demographic variables of the students on these diversities. This research was a cross-sectionat study and was conducted between January 2004 and April 2004 at the Nursing College of Ataturk University, in the provincial capital of Erzurum in Eastern Turkey. The research involved 330 students attending the first, second, third, and fourth year courses in the Nursing College at Ataturk University. No special selection was made in the population of the study; instead, 263 full time students who volunteered were included in the study.