Offering Culturally Congruent Christian Care

Jennie Gunn¹, Katherine Bydalek, Gulenia Rikabi+4

• ¹Jennie Gunn, PhD, RN, is a professor of nursing at the University of South Alabama, in Mobile, Alabama. She is President-Elect of the Transcultural Nursing Society. Kathy Bydalek, PhD, RN, is a Family Nurse Practitioner and member of the Transcultural Nursing Society. She is the President for the Alabama and Mississippi Networking Chapter of Transcultural Nursing. She is an associate professor at the University of South Alabama. Gulenia Rikabi, DNP, RN, is a Family Nurse Practitioner and assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. She serves as President for Mississippi in the Alabama and Mississippi Networking Chapter of Transcultural Nursing. Linda Sue Hammonds, DNP, RN, is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner. She is an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama. Warren Hebert, DNP, RN, is a faculty member at Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow. Cathy Hughes, DNP, RN, is an assistant professor-clinical in the College of Nursing at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Beth Lincoln, MSN, RN, is a Nurse Practitioner in family practice. She is currently President of the Transcultural Nursing Society and is adjunct faculty at Pacific Union College, Angwin, California.