Nursing and terminal patient: an anthropological perspective
Section: Ethics and Society
Authors
1Eva Piqué Prado, 2José Ángel del Pozo Flórez
Position
1Diplomada en Enfermería. Licenciada en Antropología socio-cultural. Centro de Salud Marqués de Valdavia. Alcobendas (Madrid).2Licenciado en Antropología socio-cultural. Diplomado en Trabajo social.
Contact address
Centro de Salud Marqués de Valdavia. Pº de la Chopera, 100. 28100 Alcobendas, Madrid.
Abstract
Giving holistic care to terminally patients from other cultures leads to dificulty for nurses in Spain, where there is an increasing inmigration.This is due to a wide diversity of ways to satisfy human needs. To focus the problem, it shows a comparative bibliographic study about the concept of death between the occidental and the Lugbara society.
Finally, the conclusions are: the nearness between the concept of death in the traditional lugbara society and the bases of palliative therapeutic; and the importance of researching and the use of other sciences to improve integral care to patients. At the end, it shows briefly the Leininger transcultural theory in nursing to support the ideas that have been expressed in the article.
Keywords:
terminally patient; palliative care; interculturalityinmigration nursing
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