I have been dealing with transcultural nursing for several years. Knowledge about different cultures has always been my passion, and I have consistently developed it for a long time. I successfully use it in my work as an academic teacher. I am a midwife and sociologist, currently an employee of the Department of Nursing at the University of Rzeszów in Poland. Since 2011, I have been a member of ETNA and a national representative for Polish.
On my initiative, the Transcultural Nursing course was created for nursing students, and I taught in 2011-2016. Currently, I teach the following subjects for the students of medicine and midwifery: multiculturalism in medicine and multiculturalism in women’s care.
In 2013, after a one-year course at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw, I obtained the qualifications of an intercultural competence trainer.
On my initiative, I carried out the training “”Culturally Different Patient”” for the employees of the Provincial Hospital No. 2 in Rzeszów and lectures “”Great Religions of the World”” for students of the University of the Third Age at the University of Rzeszów and the State Higher School of Higher Education in Jarosław.
Multiculturalism in healthcare is also one of the research areas that I successfully pursued.
In the years 2014-2019, I was the supervisor of the MultikultURa student scientific club for medical students, promoting scientific activity in the field of cultural competencies among medical students. Under my supervision, students have completed several projects, the results of which they presented at conferences in Poland and Turkey.
I have also collaborated with the team of Prof. Irena Papadopoulos from Middlesex University on three scientific projects. As a result of this cooperation, three multicenter international studies were carried out in several countries around the world, resulting in 7 publications. It was the first research in the world on this subject on such a large scale.
I am the editor of two monographs: (1) Medical Professions in international perspective. Nurse https://repozytorium.ur.edu.pl/items/3007304d-71eb-4dd7-958a-0a34a7086713 and (2) Medical professions in international perspective. Midwife https://repozytorium.ur.edu.pl/items/bc52c5ef-6dce-43da-a382-19e722d603c2, in which the authors I invited described the profession of nurse and midwife in several countries around the world.
I also had the opportunity to give lectures on multiculturalism at universities in Belgium, Slovenia, and Turkey. In my opinion, transcultural nursing is an excellent way to better understand patients’ attitudes and expectations to improve healthcare quality.
I am actively involved in promoting transcultural nursing and culturally sensitive care among students and healthcare professionals in my region.
