Madeleine Leininger Flashcards
What is the theory of Madeleine Leininger?
THEORY OF TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
Why is Transcultural Nursing integrated into modern nursing?
due to the increased heterogeneity of patient populations.
What is the purpose of the Transcultural Theory?
it is for nursing care to have beneficial meaning and health outcomes for people of different or similar cultural backgrounds.
When was Medeleine Leininger born?
July 13, 1925 in Sutton, Nebraska
She was in the U.S. Army Nursing Corps
Madeleine Leininger
What led Leininger to pursue a career in nursing?
It was due to her aunt who suffered from congenital heart disease
A theorist who entered the Cadet Nurse Corpse to meet anticipated needs during world war II.
Madeleine Leininger
She became the first professional nurse to earn a PhD in anthropology.
Madeleine Leininger
She became the first professional nurse to earn a PhD in anthropology.
Madeleine Leininger
(True or False) The concept of transcultural nursing has a great impact on how to deal with patients of different culture and cultural background.
True
What is the central purpose of the transcultural theory?
to discover and explain diverse and universally culturally based care factors influencing health,
a learned subfield or branch of nursing which focuses upon the comparative study and analysis of cultures with respect to nursing and health-illness caring practices, beliefs, and values with the goal to provide meaningful and efficacious nursing care services to people according to their cultural values.
Transcultural Nursing
This is the study of nursing care beliefs, values, and practices as cognitively perceived and known by a designated culture through their direct experience, beliefs, and value system.
Ethnonursing
Formal and cognitively learned professional care knowledge and practice skills obtained through educational institutions that are used to provide
assistive, supportive, enabling, or facilitative acts to improve a human health condition.
Professional Nursing
Care
This involves dynamic patterns and features of interrelated structural and organizational factors of a particular culture
Cultural and Social Structure Dimension
It is being aware that health concepts held by many cultural groups may result in people choosing not to seek Western medical treatment procedures because they do not view the illness or disease as coming from within themselves.
Traditional Concepts of Health and Disease
Refers to assisting, supporting, enabling behaviors that ease or improve a person’s condition.
Care
The values and beliefs that assist, support, or enable another person or group to maintain well-being, improve personal condition, or face death
or disability.
Cultural Care
The values and beliefs that assist, support, or enable another person or group to maintain well-being, improve personal condition, or face death
or disability.
Cultural Care
Refers to the outlook of a person based on a view of the world or universe.
World View
Refers to care or care practices that have special meaning in the culture.
Folk health or Well being System
It is being aware that folk illnesses are generally learned syndromes that individuals from particular cultural groups claim to have and from which their culture defines etiology, behaviors, diagnostic procedures,
prevention methods, and traditional healing or caring practices.
Traditional Concepts of Illness Causality
This is learned by each generation through both formal and informal life experiences.
Concept of culture
It is an in-depth examination of one’s own background, recognizing biases and prejudices, and assumptions about other people.
Cultural Awareness
In the Congruent Decisions and Actions, this retains or preserves relevant care values so that clients can maintain their well-being, recover from illness, or face handicaps and/or death.
Cultural Preservation or Maintenance
In the Congruent Decisions and Actions, this retains or preserves relevant care values so that clients can maintain their well-being, recover from illness, or face handicaps and/or death.
Cultural Preservation or maintenance
In the Congruent Decisions and Actions, this greatly modify a client’s life ways for a new, different and beneficial health care pattern.
Cultural care repatterning or restructuring
In the Congruent Decisions and Actions, this adapts with others for a beneficial or satisfying health outcome.
Cultural care accommodation or negotiation
What must take place for a nurse to successfully provide care for a client of a different
cultural or ethnic to background
Intercultural Communication
This enables nurses to develop critical and
complex thoughts towards nursing practice.
The Sunrise Model
What is the goal in the Sunrise Model?
to render efficient and effective nursing care.
focused on human care phenomena and activities in order to assist, support, facilitate, or enable individuals or groups to maintain or regain
their well-being (or health) in culturally meaningful and beneficial ways, or to help people face handicaps or death.
Nursing
It is referred to as human being. Believed to be caring and to be capable of being concerned about the needs, well-being, and survival of others.
Person
It is a state of well-being that is culturally defined, valued, and practiced, and which reflects the ability of individuals (or groups) to perform their daily role activities in culturally expressed, beneficial, and patterned lifeways.
Health
(True or False) Environment is not specifically defined by Leininger.
True
