Transcultural Nursing Care in Turkey

AIM: For quality and adequate nursing care, nurses should evaluate the cultural factors that patients have, respect these factors, and consider their impact on the patient’s health. This review aimed to examine studies conducted in the field of transcultural nursing in Turkey. METHOD: Studies published between 2000 and 2018 were searched from the electronic databases of ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Academic Search Complete, PubMed, Scopus, and Google Academic using the keywords care, culture, nursing, transcultural, transcultural nursing, and Turkey. RESULTS: As a result of the search, 150 studies were obtained, and 31 studies that fit the inclusion criteria were evaluated. These studies attempted to determine the factors that cover different dimensions of transcultural nursing, nursing education and training process, clinical and hospital applications, and several scales and guides and have been adapted and used in the Turkish population. CONCLUSION: Studies conducted in the field of transcultural nursing in Turkey have gained momentum recently and have a more basic descriptive level.