Cultural Assessment Models/Frameworks Flashcards
Leininger’s Definition of Culture
“Learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and lifeway practices to a group”
Aim of Cultural Care Framework
To make culture visible and assist healthcare providers.
Purnell’s Model of Transcultural Healthcare relations:
- Location & Heritage
- Communication
- Family Roles
- Workplace Issues
- Biocultural Ecology
- High Risk Behaviours
- Nutrition
- Pregnancy
- Death Rituals
- Spirituality
- Healthcare Practices
- Healthcare Providers
Purpose of Purnell’s Model of Transcultural Healthcare
To promote cultural safety and competence in the healthcare setting, extending to the interdisciplinary team.
The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Tool factors:
- Communication
- Space
- Time
- Environmental Control
- Social Organizations
- Biological Variations
Purpose of Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Tool
Used in nursing to evaluate the client’s beliefs and values regarding illness and health.
Spector’s Health Traditions Model
Reflects how tradition and culture impact health, illness, and healing and influence an individual’s perspective of holistic health (balance of mind, body, and spirit).
Leininger’s Sunrise Model, Cultural Care Diversity and Universality influences
- Technological factors
- Religious & Philosophical factors
- Kinship & Social Factors
- Cultural Values, Beliefs, and Lifeways
- Political & Legal Factors
- Economic Factors
- Education Factors
How Leininger’s Sunrise Model works
Worldview Cultural & Social Structure Dimensions Influences Care Expressions Patterns & Practices Holistic Health/Illness/Death
Individuals, families, groups, communities, or institutions in diverse health context of:
Generic/Folk Care
Nursing Care
Professional Systems
Nursing Care Decisions & Actions
Cultural Care Preservation & Maintenance
Cultural Care Accommodation & Negotiation
Cultural Care Repatterning & Restructuring
Culturally Congruent care for Health, Well-Being or Dying
