When nursing meets English: using a pathography to develop nursing students' culturally competent selves.

This article describes a collaboration between nursing and English faculty to pilot and study the use of a pathography to develop nursing students' cultural competence. The setting is a nursing program in an urban community college serving many foreign-born students. Interpreting a pathography was found to develop students' compassion for the patient and family.

Environmental nursing diagnoses: a proposal for further development of Taxonomy II.

Purpose: To propose further development of environmental diagnoses and to offer recommendations for expanding Taxonomy II to include more diagnostic labels that encompass the environmental domain.

Sources: Literature in the disciplines of nursing, biology, toxicology, public health, sociology, and anthropology.

Data Synthesis: Nurses need language to describe the human responses of individuals, families, communities, and global society to environmental health threats.