Transcultural Communication, Helath Care, Patient

In today´s health care workplace health care professionals must communicate with patients who speak many different languages and come from various cultural backgrounds. So that all health care professionals must develop their communication skills and techniqes to be able to communicate effectively with patients in a multicultural environment and improve effectiveness in conveying information and try to overcome cultural bias. Unfortunatelly, any communication between patient nad helth care proffesional can be marked by frustration, which arises from the lack of attention to the cultural background. To be able to improve the interaction with a patient from other cultures they need to be informed about barriers that can block transcultural communication and how to overcome such barriers.