Reflections on Care

An Approach Facing Cultural Diversity

Abstract

This article is an invitation to give new meaning to emotionalities and disagreements facing cultural diversity in nursing praxis which, as all human interaction, requires permanently updating its articulation with the context and asking new questions and empathic dialogues within communicative dynamics of exchange of meaning which, similarly, turn into an urgent need in contemporary, globalized, multicultural societies, crisscrossed by migrations and displacements.

We propose, by way of a narrative bibliographical review, to localize and present relevant positions on the issue of health care in the face of cultural diversity, from the perspective of a bibliographical corpus referring to reflections on care from different theoretical positions, which lead to asking questions about health, care, diversity, and regarding the provisions that are offered in the encounter with the Other in the framework of nursing practice in hospital settings.