Cultural diversity is a highly important issue in nursing education and nursing practice today. This study is a philosophical approach to the power relationship between a health care provider and a care recipient. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationships between nurses and ethnic minority patients based on the discussions of some Foucauldian concepts that are related to cultural diversity. Based on the analysis, this study provides some suggestions for cultural competency in nursing practice.
*Cultural Diversity ; History, 20th Century ; Humans ; Minority Groups/*psychology ; *Nurse-Patient Relations ; *Philosophy, Nursing/history ; *Power (Psychology)