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Question

With your understanding of TCN, read the transcultural study situations, reflect on the following questions:

1. What do you think is occurring in this situation?

2. What Transcultural nursing concepts, principles, or construct is being reflected in the scenario?

3. What signs are evident that the nurse(s) and other health personnel failed to respond appropriately to this transcultural situation?

4. What learning from these study that may help a nurse value and understand transcultural nursing?

Case Study: African-American Woman

An African-American woman from a southern United States rural area was wearing a cord with knots around her abdomen when admitted for the delivery of her child. The delivery nurse said "You need to remove this string as it is dirty and unnecessary". The nurse removed the cord without the client's consent and was putting it in a garbage container. The client, however, grabbed the cord and put it back on her abdomen saying "I need this (cord) to have a safe delivery." After the mother was given the anesthesia, the nursed removed the knotted cord and destroyed. Unfortunately, the infant died during the delivery, and the grieved woman attributed the death of her child to the fact that the nurse "took her cord and killed the child." When the woman left the hospital, she was very upset and kept saying "You killed my baby and destroyed my cord- I lost them both." The nursing staff did not understand why this dirty cord with knots was so important to this African woman.