**Meet the editor**

Nilgun Ulutasdemir graduated with a BSc degree from Hacettepe University in 1997, an MSc degree from Ankara University in 2004, and a PhD degree at the Fırat University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health in 2012. She became an assistant professor in 2012. She has been working at the University of Eurasia, Faculty of Health Sciences, since 2017. She is the head of

the Department of Management and Administration of Health Facilities and assistant director of Health Science Institute. She has been assigned to scientific committees of several national and international conferences and has published several book chapters and papers in various countries. Her current research interests include public health, occupational health and safety, work stress, anxiety, first aid, elderly health, disabilities and cure, school health, and infectious diseases.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Nursing 3** Nilgun Ulutasdemır

**Section 2 Nursing History and Philosophy 7**

Chapter 2 **Choosing Your Philosophical Slat 9** Frances Mary Johnson

**Section 3 Communication and Ethic in Nursing 17**

Chapter 3 **Effective Communication in Nursing 19** Maureen Nokuthula Sibiya

Chapter 5 **How to Solve Conflicts between Nurses and Patients: Examination from Japanese Culture 65**

**Section 4 Nursing and Culture 37**

Chapter 4 **Transcultural Nursing 39** Vasfiye Bayram Değer

Mayumi Uno

**Section 1 Introduction 1**

## Contents

#### **Preface XI**


Preface

developments.

*Nursing* is one of the book titles proposed by InTech in 2017. I got very excited when I got the invitation to edit this book. It was a dream to collect various manuscripts from scientists throughout the world to discuss nursing in several countries. InTech's invitation made this dream come true. This book covers topics from nursing history and philosophy, communi‐ cation and ethics in nursing, nursing, and culture. Thus, it can be used as a guide by student nurses and working nurses to recognize the nursing profession and to keep up with current

In this book, you will find all aspects of nursing profession. To this extent, a wide array of nursing that includes nursing history, nursing philosophy, communication in nursing, ethics

The first step to cover was to select and disseminate the keywords, which helped us to re‐ ceive numerous abstracts. These abstracts were then carefully evaluated, and those that were believed to contribute significantly to the literature were invited to take their place in this book. It took several months to edit each and every word of the sent chapters. It was a

In this book, you will read chapters from authors in South Africa, Japan, USA and Turkey. They discussed the nursing issues from their perspectives and reflected and provided solu‐ tion to the problems experienced from their own eyes. Thus, it makes the contents of this

I, hereby, would like to thank Ms. Anita Condic who helped me with positive attitude at

**Associate Professor Dr. Nilgun Ulutasdemir** University of Eurasia, Omer Yildiz Campus

Faculty of Health Sciences

Trabzon, Turkey

in nursing, and intercultural care has been discussed extensively.

very fruitful feedback process that we had with our authors.

book interesting and very valuable.

every single step of the publication process.

## Preface

*Nursing* is one of the book titles proposed by InTech in 2017. I got very excited when I got the invitation to edit this book. It was a dream to collect various manuscripts from scientists throughout the world to discuss nursing in several countries. InTech's invitation made this dream come true. This book covers topics from nursing history and philosophy, communi‐ cation and ethics in nursing, nursing, and culture. Thus, it can be used as a guide by student nurses and working nurses to recognize the nursing profession and to keep up with current developments.

In this book, you will find all aspects of nursing profession. To this extent, a wide array of nursing that includes nursing history, nursing philosophy, communication in nursing, ethics in nursing, and intercultural care has been discussed extensively.

The first step to cover was to select and disseminate the keywords, which helped us to re‐ ceive numerous abstracts. These abstracts were then carefully evaluated, and those that were believed to contribute significantly to the literature were invited to take their place in this book. It took several months to edit each and every word of the sent chapters. It was a very fruitful feedback process that we had with our authors.

In this book, you will read chapters from authors in South Africa, Japan, USA and Turkey. They discussed the nursing issues from their perspectives and reflected and provided solu‐ tion to the problems experienced from their own eyes. Thus, it makes the contents of this book interesting and very valuable.

I, hereby, would like to thank Ms. Anita Condic who helped me with positive attitude at every single step of the publication process.

#### **Associate Professor Dr. Nilgun Ulutasdemir**

University of Eurasia, Omer Yildiz Campus Faculty of Health Sciences Trabzon, Turkey

**Section 1**

**Introduction**

**Section 1**
