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2/2022
vol. 38
 
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The Transcultural Medical Care (TOM) mobile application as a tool facilitating the provision of transcultural medical services – a description of its use and functionalities

Marta Kordyzon
1
,
Dominika Starz
2
,
Agnieszka Strzelecka
1
,
Grażyna Nowak-Starz
1

  1. Institute of Health Sciences, Collegium Medicum, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
  2. Institute of Arts, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
Medical Studies/Studia Medyczne 2022; 38 (2): 115–123
Online publish date: 2022/06/30
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Introduction
Multicultural nursing care should be based on knowledge about cultural and religious beliefs and values, as well as the understanding of the influence of these unique customs and ways of thinking on the matters of health, life, disease, and dying. Aim of the research: To design and create an application as a tool to facilitate the work and improve the level of knowledge in healthcare in the field of transcultural medical care.

Material and methods
The method of scientific literature review was used in choosing the thematic content. The review included a choice of content in terms of cultural and religious determinants in medical care for selected groups of patients.

Results
The result of the research was the development of the TOM (Transcultural Medical Care) application tool, which contains the most important information in terms of the medical care of transcultural patients. The timetable and performance of the pre-implementation works: choice of religions, choice list of subjects, selecting the content for individual thematic blocks, final stage in this part of the research was to translate the contents into English.

Conclusions
The application is a valuable tool, which can be used to obtain cultural competences by medical personnel during their education, and is also a tool that improves the professionalism amongst the medical workers.

keywords:

transcultural nursing, transcultural care, quality of medical care

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