The cultural ways of Cambodian refugee families, combined
with the physical and psychological health problems
inherent in their refugee experience, have presented ing and rewarding opportunities for school nurses to engage
in the process of transcultural nursing. The purpose of this
descriptive study was to understand the nature and meaning
of a school district crosscultural team’s experiences of providing
health care for children of Cambodian refugee families.
Focus group interviews of school nurses and Cambodian
liaisons were conducted utilizing Dobson’s (1989) conceptual
framework of transcultural health visiting as a guiding
theoretical perspective. The concepts of transcultural and
intracultural reciprocity, as experienced in relationships with
Cambodian refugees, were explored.