Authors

1Fernando Jesús Plaza del Pino, 2Encarnación Soriano Ayala

Position

¹Doctor en Enfermería por la Universidad de Almería. Enfermero asistencial del Hospital Torrecárdenas de Almería. ²Profesora titular de la Universidad de Almería, Departamento de Educación.

Contact address

C/ Granada, 190. Bloque C, 2ºB. 04008 Almería

Contact email: ferplaza@ual.es

Abstract

Objective: to ascertain how nursing professionals perceive their relationships with muslim patients, the largest alien group in the area where the study was conducted: Almería.
Methodology: qualitative study. For the collection of data two discussion groups comprised of nursing professionals were used. Data analysis was carried out by means of content analysis, identifying categories and constructing a final system of metacategories.
Results: two representative metacategories of the nurse-muslim patient relationship were identified: 1) the nurse’s responsibility, that is the role of the nurse to maintain a pleasant, friendly and relaxing environment and to achieve the establishment of normal relationships with muslim patients and 2) to maintain normality within a multicultural community, by incorporating the new multicultural reality to the routines of the healthcare professionals.
Conclusions: nursing professionals must become the change agents that lead the process which makes hospitals places where tolerance and co-living converge. To do this, special training should be given on aspects such as cultural care, intercultural competitiveness, by fostering intercultural exchange, improving and adapting nursing care and in so doing, gaining the cultural respect as well as the quality of care.

Keywords:

culture; intercultural communication; cultural competence; muslims; immigrants; aliens; professionals; qualitative research; discussiongroups

Versión en Español

Título:

Aproximación cualitativa a la relación enfermera-paciente musulmán