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Theories Around Self-Promotion and Self-Management
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
Maria Grandinetti, Sarah E. Abalos
Understanding how culture impacts health and health perception is critical to the provision of patient-centered care and another important function of nursing theory. Cultural competence is the process of learning about the values, beliefs, and traditions of a group and then directly applying that knowledge to improve the delivery of nursing care (Williams & Harrison, 2010). Madeleine Leininger’s Theory of Transcultural Nursing can be used to provide patient care that incorporates cultural considerations (Leininger & McFarland, 2002). The theory explains the role of culture in health, establishes how patients respond to illness, suffering, and death, promotes respect of diversity, and improves nurse–patient relationships. Nurses should use culturological assessments to develop plans of care that more fully address patient needs that result from cultural factors. Using the Theory of Transcultural Nursing, an individual’s culture can be preserved or maintained, accommodated or negotiated, and repatterned or restructured to assist the individual in achieving the highest levels of health (Leininger & McFarland, 2002). Nurses who understand the impact of culture on health can design strategies to improve health that may be more appealing and sustainable to the individual. Theories in nursing continue to be relevant in contemporary practice as they provide nurses with the wisdom to solve encountered problems.
Time and space in the context of nursing work
Published in Karen Holland, Anthropology of Nursing, 2019
Their particular transcultural nursing model supports the view that ‘transcultural nursing is viewed as a culturally competent field that is client centred and research focused’ (Giger & Davidhizar 2008, p. 5), and most importantly when it comes to the focus of this chapter, they have developed a framework for nurses to use which encompasses both time and space in relation to delivery of culturally appropriate care. As discussed in Chapter 2, whatever views one has of transcultural nursing and the drive for nurses to be culturally competent across many cultures, it is important for nurses to have an awareness of cultural differences in the way time is both lived and experienced. Their book offers a broad introduction to the model and these two important concepts but also offers an insight, through what some may deem a ‘recipe book approach’, to how various cultural groups in the USA perceive and experience time and space as part of the whole model, including how it impacts on nursing practice. I learnt, for example, that scheduling appointments for health care in the Yup’ik and Inupiat peoples of Alaska is a challenge because of the way present time is perceived, and that many patients preferred to come to the clinic when they felt like it (Giger & Davidhizar 2008, p. 337).
Cultural care: Knowledge and skills for implementation in practice
Published in Karen Holland, Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care, 2017
Wilkins (1993), in an extensive literature review of transcultural nursing, took a similar view and concludes that there ‘could well be a danger in discussing culture-specific nursing care’, and that nurses should be taught cultural awareness and sensitivity that acknowledges the uniqueness of the individual regardless of their cultural origins. This view appears to be a strong recommendation in both UK and US literature on what nurses need to be encouraged to learn in order to care for a multicultural community.
Clarifying Cultural Safety: its focus and intent in an Australian context
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2022
These various approaches to culture and inclusivity result in profound misunderstandings of cultural safety, a lack of clarity around which version of the contested culture concept is being used and the practice of referring to quite different models as if they are the same. These problems are apparent in clinical and research practice, university documents and curricular, and in society generally (Bonson, 2018). Similar issues were raised by Papps: ‘Is Cultural Safety, then the same as the notion of Transcultural Nursing … or the same as cultural sensitivity … or the same as cultural competence … or the same as culturally competent nursing’ (Papps, 2002, p. 101 cited in Ramsden, 2002, p. 117)? As Ramsden goes on to note, she and many others she cites, say they are not the same (also see Curtis et al., 2019).
A quasi-experimental study examining a nurse-led education program to improve knowledge, self-care, and reduce readmission for individuals with heart failure
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2019
Martha S. Awoke, Diana-Lyn Baptiste, Patricia Davidson, Allen Roberts, Cheryl Dennison-Himmelfarb
The theory of Culture Care & Transcultural nursing defines culture as ‘learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms of a group that influences behavior’ (Leininger, 1988). As such, intervention planned considered the patient’s cultural background, beliefs and values to encourage active patient engagement and adaptation. Additionally, the delivery method of patient education and patient’s response was continuously evaluated to increase patient engagement and promote adherence to treatment plan.
Enhancing Dementia Education and Cognitive Screening in A Haitian Population: A Faith-based Approach
Published in Journal of Community Health Nursing, 2021
Sandra Daccarett, Lisa Kirk Wiese, María Los Ángeles Ordóñez
Leininger’s focus on culturally relevant care to attain health and well-being (1998, 2006) guided this work (see Figure 1). Applying Leininger’s (2006) framework of Transcultural Nursing concepts to this project meant that providers should be competent regarding Haitian culture, beliefs, and religion. For example, Haitian Americans typically interact more effectively in community-based settings, with people whom they can share “commonalities” and in their “environmental context” (p. 311).