Nursing diagnoses of culturally diverse patients

As the world's people become more mobile and the record number of refugees seek new homes, nurses are being increasingly faced with the caring of people from a culture different than their own. More than ever, there is a need for nursing care planned around unique cultural healthcare beliefs, values and practices of patients. However, incorporating cross-cultural defining characteristics into nursing diagnoses has been slow and difficult, the main reason being that nursing diagnoses are built into a classification system based on "labelling" which is "unintentionally culturally insensitive and may even stereotype clients." To help nurses in caring for culturally diverse patients, additions suggested to the classification system of nursing diagnoses are given below.