Begona Garcia-Navarro, E.Costa, Emília IsabelSoriano, ESleeter, CCasanova, MACala, VC2018-12-072018-12-0720171877-0428http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11998Our main goal was to identify the attitudes of nursing students to cultural diversity in a healthcare setting, and find the potential relationship between this and the students' national background and their knowledge of cultural diversity. A descriptive observational study comparing two culturally different populations within a cross-border area (Algarve-Huelva) was conducted. The attitudes of the participants were measured across six categories: this study will describe the most significant ones. The cultural context is essential to the development of attitudes to immigration. Nursing care is a communicative act and encountering the "other" the core of the nursing professionals' work. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.engconference object10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.076