Nursing and Faith Diversity

Nursing , as well as any other fields , requires interaction between the patient and the nurse . Since the case is like this , a nurse is expected to be able to cope up with the needs of the patients and be able to understand where they are coming from at the same time . Herein lies the problem of transcultural nursing where a nurse is assigned to a patient outside his /her own cultural inclination

Being a nurse requires adept skills at identifying with his /her patients without discrimination of the differences in opinion . Caring

for patients outside the nurse 's cultural realm has the tendency to marginalize and differentiate the cultures , including unprofessional categorizing of people belonging to a different sect . Some of these sects are religion , ethnicity , race and beliefs . As mentioned earlier this is not professional - one should not label another person due to his /her beliefs and inclinations . This is focused on different religions and what this difference does to the interaction between the nurse and the patient

Hinduism , the only surviving religion with a close system wherein one is born to his caste and cannot be reassigned to another caste unless he is reborn , believes that inter-cultural activities should not be patronized because the soul is easily infiltrated with impurities and imperfections transmitted through interaction with other castes However , the Hindu nurse that I had interviewed is open for patients that are not Hindu . This he accepted rather than treating the outcastes or as they called it...