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Author: Joan Luckmann, RN, MA
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Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN 10: 076680593X
ISBN 13: 9780766805934
Edition: 1st
Description:
In today's complex health care workplace health care professionals must be able to communicate with clients who speak different languages, and come from distinct cultural backgrounds. They must be able to understand and show compassion for the different cultures, lifestyles, traditions, and expectations they will encounter. The goal of this practical book is to help health care professionals expand their perspectives and to develop the skills and techniques needed to work and communicate effectively with clients and other health professionals in a multicultural environment. This text also contains self-assessment and self- evaluation exercises.
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