Una propuesta educativa en enfermería transcultural: el caso de la cultura menonita

Abstract

The need of trespassing the cultural barriers, in the first place that of the language, understanding language as a communication system that allows to express concepts, between the users of the Mennonite culture and the nursing degree students, of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Unidad Multidisciplinaria en Cuauhtémoc City, leads us to an educational purpose in the nurse care. Our aim is to introduce the student as a future provider of human care, to the Mennonite culture, that lives in the region since 1922. Their language is the low german. They have very strong health traditions and uses . The General Hospital Javier Ramirez Topete of Cuauhtémoc City has given us the data that almost the 73% of the Mennonite population use the Mexican community health services. That is why it is very necessary the interaction through the language. We are taking as a base the Diversity and Universality theory of the Cultural Care of Madeleine Leninger, whose purpose is that the nursing care goes beyond the interculturality , using the medical anthropological concepts applied in a health dictionary of the Mennonite culture, to the human relationship, the communication and the comprehension of health meanings an so arrive to the cross-cultural nursery . We assume that the existence of the cultural care in the health system strengthens the nurse role in the assistential practices. That is why this educational purpose is so important.