Southwick Margaret, Polaschek Nick
J Nurs Educ. 2014 May 1;53(5):249-55. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20140415-01. Epub 2014 Apr 15.
This article presents a new model of cultural diversity in nursing that critically reconstructs the concept of marginality that underpins other models. Rather than viewing the marginal as "other," marginality is redefined as the space in between the dominant cultural reality and the cultural realities of minority groups located within a society. Members of a minority cultural group who become skilled in the difficult process of negotiating this in-between space open the possibility of transformation within nursing education and practice. This model has been applied in a study of the experience of nursing students of Pacific ethnicity in New Zealand. Subsequently, an undergraduate Pacific nursing program was developed, with greatly increased success rates in registration of Pacific nurses. This model of cultural diversity can also be used to understand nursing practice involving people from minority cultures or other socially excluded categories.
本文提出了一种护理文化多样性的新模式，该模式批判性地重构了支撑其他模式的边缘性概念。边缘性并非被视为“他者”，而是被重新定义为社会中主流文化现实与少数群体文化现实之间的空间。少数文化群体的成员若能熟练应对在这个中间地带进行协商的艰难过程，就为护理教育和实践中的转变创造了可能性。该模式已应用于一项关于新西兰太平洋族裔护理专业学生经历的研究。随后，一个本科太平洋护理项目得以开发，太平洋护士注册成功率大幅提高。这种文化多样性模式还可用于理解涉及少数文化群体或其他社会排斥群体的护理实践。
