The Relationship between Academic/Professional Qualification and Longevity of Service Parameters in Trans-Cultural Client Care by Nurses of Fako, SWR, Cameroon

Every client seeking care comes from a cultural background. Each cultural background has elements that need to be diagnosed in order to provide care in a manner that is seriously conflicting with the client’s culture. Sometimes in the provision of care, conflicting ideas need negotiation and sometimes re-patterning, but these must be done in an acceptable manner such that the client is at ease, and so healing is enhanced. For these to occur, knowledge and qualification of the care provider play a role. At other times, the longevity of service and knowledge and attitudes either interfere or enhance the process. Based on these, this study on the relationship between academic/ professional qualification and longevity of service was conducted to test the presence or non presence of trans-cultural client care among some nurses and midwives in Health Care Institutions in Fako Division. The objectives were to sought the importance and preservation of trans- cultural client care (TCC); find out the relationship between academic/professional qualification; and relationship between longevity of service and the identified parameters of culture diagnostic, negotiating and re-patterning. Stratified samples of nurses/midwives working in Health Care Institutions in Fako Division, were administered multiple choice questionnaires, for a period of three weeks. One hundred and sixty five (165) participants filled the questionnaires and SPSS 16.0 was used to analyze the data collected. The results revealed high degree of dependence between the professional qualification (P-value = 0.023), academic qualification (P-value = 0.001), professional profile (longevity) (P-value = 0.000) of nurses/midwives and trans-cultural client care in healthcare institutions in Fako Division. These verifications let to the confirmation of the assumptions of the study. Professional qualification/academic qualification, and professional profile (longevity), influence trans-cultural client care among nurses/midwives in health institutions in Fako Division. We recommend that Health Care Institutions should regularly organize seminars and workshops on the effective use and application of clients’ culture during care.