Transcultural perioperative nursing in Berlin

Political events and military base closures in the early 1990s caused the US Army Hospital, Berlin, to extend care to include British military forces and to contract the services of civilian German surgeons and nurses. This article describes transcultural perioperative nursing in Berlin from 1991 to 1994. It also compares the differences between American, British, and German military and civilian expectations of OR nurses, anesthesia care providers, and surgeons and explores nursing education, licensing, practice issues, and socialized medicine in a transcultural environment.