Nurses' experiences of cross-cultural care encounters in Swedish pediatric hospital care: A qualitative study.

Purpose: Nurses are expected to provide appropriate care for children from diverse cultural backgrounds to achieve the aims of current legislation on good care and to ensure equal terms for the entire population. This study aim was to describe nurses' experiences of cross-cultural care encounters when interacting with children and families with a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse background in Swedish pediatric hospital care.

Design And Methods: A descriptive qualitative study was conducted.

Cross-cultural care encounters in paediatric care: minority ethnic parents' experiences.

Background: Because of worldwide migration, the healthcare staff in general as well as in paedi"atric care specifically is challenged increasingly by people from various ethnic backgrounds. The challenge is related to providing culturally competent care and effectively communicating with people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds who have different health beliefs, practices, values and languages. This also applies to the Swedish society and to Swedish paediatric care.

Ethnic Swedish parents' experiences of minority ethnic nurses' cultural competence in Swedish paediatric care.

Background: Sweden has a population of a little more than 9.4 million. The rapid growth of immigration in Sweden has resulted in an increased number of minority ethnic patients and minority ethnic nurses in the Swedish healthcare system.