Online Companion: Nursing Fundamentals: Caring & Clinical Decision Making

Web Sites
Chapter 5: Culture & Ethnicity

National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/
Search here for information and links on health disparities, cultural attitudes toward health ethics, and cultural competency; from the United States National Institutes on Health.

University of California at Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute
http://www.npi.ucla.edu/
Find the Center for Culture and Health, presenting current research projects on culture and health.

Cross Cultural Health Care Program
http://www.xculture.org/
Describes a Seattle, Washington organization that provides cultural competency training, interpreter training, research projects, community coalition building, and other services.

National Association of Hispanic Nurses
http://www.thehispanicnurses.org/
Website for the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, whose purpose is to serve the health needs of the Hispanic community and the professional needs of Hispanic nurses.

National Black Nurses Association
http://nbna.org/
Describes an organization dedicated to the investigation, definition, and advocacy for the health care needs of African Americans and to the implementation of strategies to ensure access to all.

Office of Minority Health
http://www.omhrc.gov/
Describes United States Department of Health and Human Services program to improve the health of minority people, including statistical data, information about conferences, and information about minority health.

Bureau of Primary Health Care
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/
Describes the relationship between quality care and culture and provides links to order governmental documents on the topic of Quality and Culture.

Transcultural Nursing Society
http://www.tcns.org/
Provides information about transcultural nursing, access to Dr. Madeleine Leininger’s web pages, information about the Journal of Transcultural Nursing, and membership information.