Cultural issues in palliative care

Semin Oncol Nurs. 2005 Feb;21(1):44-52. doi: 10.1053/j.soncn.2004.10.007.

Abstract

Objectives: To review the common issues at the end of life across cultures and the measures that can be taken to dress these issues.

Data sources: Published articles and textbook chapters.

Conclusion: Culture plays a critical role in how patients, families, and health care providers view the end of life. Cultural competence in end-of-life care includes knowledge and experience and working in cross-cultural situations.

Implications for nursing practice: Increased culture-specific knowledge will provide nurses with a basis for beginning exploration of individual or family beliefs.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives
  • Attitude to Death / ethnology
  • Attitude to Health / ethnology
  • Communication Barriers
  • Cultural Diversity*
  • Family / ethnology
  • Funeral Rites
  • Grief
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms / ethnology
  • Neoplasms / nursing
  • Nurse's Role
  • Nursing Assessment
  • Oncology Nursing / organization & administration*
  • Palliative Care / organization & administration*
  • Religion
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement
  • Transcultural Nursing / organization & administration*