Textbook for Transcultural Health Care: A Population Approach

Dr. Larry Purnell is Emeritus Professor from the University of Delaware where he coordinated the graduate programs in nursing and healthcare administration and taught culture. His Model, the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence has been translated into Arabic, Czech, Flemish, Korean, French, German, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. His textbook on Transcultural Health Care won the Brandon Hill and American Journal of Nursing Book Awards. Dr. Purnell has over 100 refereed journal publications, 100 book chapters, and 14 textbooks, including updated editions. He has made presentations throughout the United States as well as in Australia, Colombia, Costa Rica, England, Denmark, Italy, Korea, Panama, Russia, Scotland, Spain, and Turkey. He is the U.S. Representative to the European Union's Commission on Intercultural Communication resulting from the Salamanca, Sorbonne, Bologna, and WHO Declarations. He has been on the International Editorial Board, for six journals. Dr. Purnell is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a Transcultural Nursing Scholar, Luther Christman Fellow, and is on the Rosa Parks Wall of Fame for Teaching Tolerance. Dr. Eric A. Fenkl, an Associate Professor of Nursing, received his PhD in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Dr. Fenkl's research interests include the cultural aspects of HIV/HPV prevention and related disease among LGBT populations with a particular emphasis on MSM and ethnically diverse populations. Dr. Fenkl has been the Co-PI on two large grants from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, SAMHSA. One to develop a program focusing on HIV/STD and substance abuse prevention for minority LGBT students on campus and a second one to implement a program for outreach in the greater Miami metropolitan area specifically for at-risk minority MSM. Dr. Fenkl has presented at numerous national and international conferences and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals globally. Dr. Fenkl's teaching is focused on the facilitation of cultural competence in advanced practice nursing.

Introduction.- Part I. Foundations for Cultural Competence.- Chapter 1. Transcultural Diversity and Health Care: Individual and Organizational.- Chapter 2. The Purnell Model and Theory for Cultural Competence.- Chapter 3. Individual Competence and Evidence-Based practice (with inclusion of the International Standards).- Chapter 4. Organizational Cultural Competence.- Chapter 5. Perspectives on Nursing in a Global Context.- Part II. Aggregate Data for Cultural-Specific Groups.- Chapter 6. People of African American Heritage.- Chapter 7. The Amish.- Chapter 8. People of Appalachian Heritage.- Chapter 9. People of Arab Heritage.- Chapter 10. People of Chinese Heritage.- Chapter 11. People of Cuban Heritage.- Chapter 12. People of European American Heritage.- Chapter 13. People of Filipino Heritage.- Chapter 14. People of German Heritage.- Chapter 15. People of Guatemalan Heritage.- Chapter 16. People of Haitian Heritage.- Chapter 17. People of Hindu Heritage.- Chapter 18. People of Hmong Heritage.- Chapter 19. People of Japanese Heritage.- Chapter 20. People of Jewish heritage.- Chapter 21. People of Korean Heritage.- Chapter 22. People of Mexican Heritage.- Chapter 23. People of Polish Heritage.- Chapter 24. People of Puerto Rican Heritage.- Chapter 25. People of Russian Heritage