Leininger Flashcards
What is her theory
Cultural diversity and universality theory
is a comparative study of cultures to understand similarities (culture universal) and difference (culture-specific) across human groups
Transcultural nursing
Set of values, beliefs and traditions, that are held by a specific group of people and handed down from generation to generation.
Culture
is primary through means of transmitting culture.
Language
Is a set of belief in a divine or super human power (or powers) to be obeyed and worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe.
Religion
refers to a group of people who share a common and distinctive culture and who are members of a specific group.
Ethnic
a consciousness of belonging to a group.
Ethnicity
the sense of being part of an ethnic group or culture
Cultural Identify
commonalities of values, norms of behavior, and life patterns that are similar among different cultures.
Culture Universals
values, beliefs, and patterns of behavior that tend to be unique to a designate culture.
Culture specifies
Refers to objects (dress, art, religious artifacts)
Material Culture
Refers to beliefs customs, languages, social institutions.
Non material Culture
composed of people who have a distinct identity but are related to a larger cultural group.
Sub culture
a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values.
Bi cultural
refers to the fact or state of being different. Can occur between cultures and within a cultural group.
Diversity
People of a minority group tend to assume the attitudes, values, beliefs, find practices of the dominant society resulting in a blended cultural pattern.
Acculturation
the state of being disoriented or unable to respond to a different cultural environment because of its sudden strangeness, unfamiliarity, and incompatibility to the stranger’s perceptions and expectations at is differentiated from others by symbolic markers (cultures, biology, territory, religion).
Culture shock
share a common social and cultural heritage that is passed on to successive generations.,
Ethnic groups
refers to a subjective perspective of the person’s heritage and to a sense of belonging to a group that is distinguishable from other groups.
Ethnic identity
the classification of people according to shared biologic characteristics, genetic markers, or features. Not all people have the same culture.
Race
It is an in-depth self-examination of one’s own background, recognizing biases and prejudices and assumptions about other people.
Cultural Awareness
Care that fits the people’s valued life patterns and set of meanings -which is generated from the people themselves, rather than based on predetermined criteria.
Culturally congruent care
is the ability of the practitioner to bridge cultural gaps in caring, work with cultural differences and enable clients and families to achieve meaningful and supportive caring.
Culturally competent care
This is the study of nursing care beliefs values and practices as cognitively perceived and known by designated culture through their direct experience beliefs and value system
Ethnonursing
It’s defined as a learned humanistic in scientific profession and discipline which is focus on human care phenomena and activities in order to assist support facilitate or enable individuals or groups to maintain or regain their well-being in culturally meaningful and beneficial ways or to help people face handicaps or death
Nursing
Defined as formal incognitively learned profession care knowledge and practice skills obtain through educational institutions that are used to provide assistive supportive enabling or facilitative acts to or for another individual or group in order to improve a human health condition disability lifeway or to work with dying clients
Professional nursing care
It’s defined as those cognitively based assistive supportive facilitative or enabling acts or decision that are tailor made the fit with individual group or institutional cultural values beliefs and life ways in order to provide our support meaningful beneficial and satisfying health care or well-being services
Cultural Congruent Care
It is a state of well-being that is culturally defined in value then practice in which reflects the ability of individuals to perform their daily role activities in culturally expressed beneficial and pattern life ways
Health
Believe to be caring and to be capable of being concerned about the needs well-being and survival of others
Human beings
These terms are not defined by linear she speaks instead of worldview social structure and environmental contexts
Society and environment
It’s the way in which people look at the world or in the universe and form a “picture or value stance” about the world and their lives
Worldview
Are defined as involving the dynamic patterns and features of interrelated structural and organizational factors of a particular culture which includes religious kinship political economic educational technological and cultural values ethno historical factors and how these factors may be interrelated and function to influence human behavior in different environmental contexts
Cultural and social structure dimensions
Is the totality of an event situation in particular experience that gives meaning interpretation interactions in particular physical ecological social political and cultural settings
Environmental context
It’s defined as the subjectively in objectively learned and transmitted values beliefs in pattern life ways that assess support facilitate or enable another individual or group to maintain their well-being health improve their human condition and lifeway or to deal with illness handicaps or death
Culture Care
Indicates the variabilities in order differences in meaning patterns values life ways or symbols of care within or between collectives that are related to assistive supportive or enabling human care expression
Culture care diversity
Indicates the common similar or dominant uniform care meaning patterns values lifeways are symbols that are manifest among many cultures and reflect assistive supportive facilitative or enabling ways to help people
Culture Care universality
English dose assistive supporting facilitative or enabling a professional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture that attain in our preserved relevant care value so that they can maintain their well-being recover from illness or face handicaps or death
Cultural care preservation or maintenance
Includes those assistant supportive facilitative or enabling creative professional actions in decisions that help people of a designated culture to adapt to our negotiate with others for a beneficial or satisfying health outcome with professional care providers
Cultural care accommodation or negotiation
Includes those assistive supporting facilitative or enabling professionals actions in decisions that help our clients reorder change or greatly modified their lifeways for new different and beneficial health care pattern while respecting the client’s cultural values and beliefs
Cultural care repattening or restructuring
She is considered as the founder of the theory of transcultural nursing.
Madeleine Leininger
Transcultural nursing theory is also known as
Culture Care Theory
One of the first nursing theorist and transcultural global nursing consultant.
Madeleine Leininger
