Importance, Goals, Theorist, and Basic Concepts Flashcards
Importance of Trans. Nursing
- Provide culturally competent and respectful care
to patients from diverse backgrounds and
community - Helps nurses to understand and appreciate the
cultural values, beliefs and practices of their
patients. - Helps nurses to improve patient outcomes
compliance communication and self-esteem - Help nurses to learn about the history and context
of the healthcare setting and the community - Learn how to do comparative cultural care and
health assessment with individuals, families,
groups, institutions and communities
Develop scientific and humanistic body of knowledge
in order to provide culture specific and culture
universal nursing practices for individuals, families,
groups, communities, and institutions of similar
diverse cultures.
Goals
Particular values,
beliefs, and patterns of
behavior that tend to be
special or unique to a
group that do not tend
to be shared with
members of other
cultures
Culture Specific
Commonly shared
values, norms of
behaviors and life
patterns that are
similarly held among
cultures about human
behavior and lifestyle
Culture Universal
Who is the nursing theorist in Transcultural Nursing?
Madeleine Leininger
Founder of Transcultural Nursing
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger studied ________ in 1950s and early 60s
anthropology
Leininger earned her PhD in ______ ______
cultural anthropology
True or False
Leininger decided that transcultural nursing rarely deals with the lifeways and patterns of people.
False
Leininger decided that nursing was constantly dealing with the lifeways and patterns of people.
study of the lifeways and patterns of persons of various cultures including their
healthcare practices and nursing role.
Transcultural Nursing
the study of the lifeways and patterns of persons of various culture from an anthropological perspective that is being applied to nursing.
Cross Cultural Nursing
exchange of nurses between two or more nations or cultures.
International Nursing
patterns and lifeways that guide a group of
people’s world view and decision making.
Culture
situation where one culture forces their values and beliefs on another culture or subculture.
Cultural Imposition
person who flees from persecution, invasion or political danger.
Refugee
something regarded as desirable, worthy or
right, as belief, standard, or moral precept.
Values
Tenet or body of tenets, doctrine; creed.
Beliefs
What are the factors of beliefs?
- Religion
- Environment
Universal tendency of human beings to
think that their ways of thinking, acting, and believing are
the only right, proper, and natural ways. It can be a major
barrier to providing culturally conscious care.
Ethnocentrism
usually an oversimplification made
about behaviors of an individual or large group.
Generalization
to make a person possess or believe to possess characteristics or qualities that typify a particular
group.
Stereotyping
related term that is often used as the same as
culture, but it has different meaning.
Ethnicity
refers to racial and often skin-color identity of particular groups related to specific and obvious features based on national origins
Ethnicity
refers to the powerful internal and external directive forces that give meaning and order to the thinking, decisions, and actions of an individual or group. It becomes guides to nursing actions and decision
Cultural Value
refers to an individual who is disoriented or unable to respond appropriately to another
person or situation because the lifeways are so strange and unfamiliar
Culture Shock
are two important but different concepts to be understood by nurses in transcultural nursing
Uniculturalism and Multiculturalism
refers to the belief that one’s universe is largely constituted, centered upon, and functions from a one-culture perspective that reflects excessive ethnocentrism
Uniculturalism
Uniculturalism is also known as
monoculturalism
refers to a perspective and reality that
there are many different cultures and subcultures in the world that need to be recognized, valued, and understood
for their differences and similarities.
Multiculturalism
is closely related to ethnocentrism. It
refers to firm position or stance that one’s own values and beliefs must govern the situation or decision
Cultural Bias
refers to the position that cultures
are so unique and must be evaluated, judged, and helped according to their own particular values and standards
Cultural Relativism
refers to the inability of an individuals to recognize or see one’s own lifestyle values, and modes of acting as those based largely on ethnocentric and based tendencies
Cultural Blindness
is a relatively new concept in healthcare
that Leininger coined and discovered while caring for cultures who said they experience “pain” because nurses and physicians failed to recognize their cultural discomfort or offenses
Cultural Pain
Refers to the suffering, discomfort, or being
greatly offended by an individual or group who shows a great lack of sensitivity toward another’s cultural experience
Cultural Pain
refers to biological and physical expressions in different physical environments or contexts related to care, health, illness and disabilities
Bioculturalism
refers to specific care, health, illness and disease conditions that are particular, quiet unique and usually specific to a designated culture or geographical area
Culture Bound
is derived from the concept of race, and race is generally defined as a biological factor of a discrete group whose members share distinctive, genetic, biological and other factors from a common or claimed ancestor.
Racism
True or False
Race has become used and often viewed as a discrimination of oppressed majorities or people of different skin color
False
Race has become used and often viewed as a discrimination of oppressed minorities or people of different skin color
refers to preconceived ideas, beliefs, or
opinions about an individual, group or culture that limit a full and accurate understanding of the individual, culture,
gender, event or situatio
Prejudice
refers to overt or covert ways of limiting opportunities choices or life experiences of others based on feelings or on racial biases
Discrimination
refers to negative feedback or unfavorable outcomes after nurses have been working or
consulting with cultures (often overseas) for brief periods
Cultural Backlash
refers to nurses who became too involved, overly sympathetic or too compassionate with the people, situation or a human
condition. As a consequence, the nurse is unable to be helpful to the culture or individual, nontherapeutic and
inappropriate actions are evident
Cultural Overidentification
