The Barriers and Strategies of Communication among Student Nurses during Cross-Cultural Nursing Care Practice

Background: Communication is a very essensial aspect of cross-culture care nursing practice. Nurses will meet some obstacles in the situations where they do not communicate as their patients' language, and it will lead to the poor quality of nursing care. Objective: The purpose of the study is to explore the student nurses' experiences in communication during the cross-culture care nursing practice in a general hospital. Method : The design is qualitative descriptive exploratory study. Semi structured interviews and open questioner were conducted with eight students nurses from Indonesia and Thailand. The data were analyzed thematically. Result: There are three themes that emerge as the findings of the study, these are: the barriers of communication, the strategies of communication and factors affecting communication. Conclusion: Students nurses have made creative startegies to communicate with the patients who have different background of culture. It is important for every school of nursing to ensure that the prospective of nurses has been completed with sufficient knowledge and skill of cross-culture communication. It is in order to give high quality of nursing care for the patients from the different cultural and guarantee the readiness of nurses in facing the challenge of ASEAN Community.