Cultural Diversity & Medicine

• African-American Health from the NLM (National Library of Medicine) 
• Asian American Health (NLM)
• Health and Multiculture Copyright ©2001-2003 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
  Cultural Competency Information & Resources – NJ Dep’t of Health & Senior Services
• Cultural Competence Resources From SUNY at Buffalo Health Sciences Library.
  Developed in support of a Cultural Competence Workshop, "Incorporating Cultural Competence Skills into Nursing Curricula/Practice," held on November 5, 2004; sponsored by the Dept. of Health and Human Services, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Advanced Education Nursing Program; presenters: Mary Ann Jezewski, Associate Dean for Research, UB School of Nursing; Sharon Murphy, Associate Librarian, Health Sciences Library, and Patricia M. Sarchet, Medical Anthropologist, UB Health Professions IT Partnership.
• Ethnic Groups Compiled and Created by Ellen Bosman, MLS
  African  American,   Amish, Appalachian rural poor, Bosnian/Eastern European, Canadian, Catholic, Christian Science, Filipino Haitian, Hindu / Indian, Hispanic (Mexican/Central American), Homeless Urban poor (Chattanooga area) Jamaican, Japanese,  Jehovah's Witness, Jewish, Mennonite,  Mormon, Muslim, Native American, Saudi Arabian, Seventh Day Adventist, Vietnamese/Laotian.

• Ethnic Med from Harborview Medical Center – University of Washington. Refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
  Arab, Cambodian, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Lao, Mien, Oromo, Samoan, Somali, South Asian, Soviet Jewish, Ukrainian.©1995-2003 University of Washington Harborview Medical Center.

• Health Information Resources – Michigan eLibrary

• Judaism and Medical Bioethics © Jewish Internet Consortium

• Jewish Encyclopedia  

• Minority Health – Arizona Health Sciences Library

• Minority Health from NLM

• Multicultural Connections – Toronto Public Library

• Multicultural Health ©  Georgia State University Department of Anthropology

• Multicultural and Transcultural Health (Dartmouth)  

• Multicultural Health Clearinghouse (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  

• Multicultural Health Resources  Compiled by the editors of Online Journal of Issues in Nursing  

• Multilingual Health Information – National Network of Libraries of Medicine 

• Native Americans 

• NCMHD National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities

• Organ Transplants and Tissue Donation © Kidney Foundation of Canada for a variety of Ethnic populations

• Queensland Government – Multicultural Health Resources (includes Muslim)  

• Religious & Ethnic Groups ©  Compiled and Created by Ellen Bosman, M.L.S
  Amish, Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian Scientist, Hindu, Hutterite, Islam, Jehovah Witness, Judaism, Latter Day Saints, Religious Society of Friends, Seventh Day Adventist. Also the following 

BOOKS on RESERVE

• LPN Shelf: RES 610.73 HAR Medical Surgical Nursing, Total Patient Care by Harkness & Dincher
• RN Shelf: RES 610.73 BRU Brunner & Suddarth’s Medical Surgical Nursing, Seltzer & Bare
• RES 610.73 CHE Contemporary Nursing issues, trends & Management Cherry & Jacob
• RES 610.73 SMI Clinical Nursing Skills Smith, Duell, Martin

JOURNALS 

For Journal articles on Cultural Diversity, search the Databases available at Trocaire Library. Type in any of these terms: 

• Cultural diversity and nursing, or 
• Health belief and nursing, or 
• Nurs* and multicultural