Doane And Varcoe On Nursing And Culture

“All nursing is cultural and contextual” (Doane, G.H., Varcoe, 2015). Doane and Varcoe stress the importance that nursing has to do with cultures and the context, and to look beyond the obvious. To see that culture is more than population groups and not necessarily pertaining to race, ethnicity or one’s nationality but as always dynamic and changing (Doane, G.H., Varcoe, 2015). When applying context and culture relationally in nursing practice, nurses are reminded that people are situated and constituted within multiple contexts so that two individuals cannot be lumped together as the same culture (Doane, G.H., Varcoe, 2015). Furthermore, one should be careful to avoid labelling and imposing one’s own interpretations as there are many factors