Madeleine Leininger Flashcards
Born in Nebraska in 1925. She began her nursing career after she graduated with a diploma from St. Anthony’s School of Nursing in Denver, Colorado.
Madeleine Leininger
The culture care diversity and universality theory has features that distinctly set it apart from other nursing theories.
Transcultural Nursing
It is the only theory that focuses on holistic and comprehensive culture care.
Transcultural Nursing
It can be used in any culture because it includes multiple holistic factors that are universally found across cultures
Transcultural Nursing
Refers to the patterned lifeways, values, beliefs, norms, symbols, and practices of individuals that are learned, shared, and usually transmitted from one generation to the other
Culture
it is learned by each generation through both formal and informal life experiences
Culture
The practices of a particular culture often arise because of the group’s social and physical environment. These practices and beliefs are adapted over time, but they remain constant as long as they satisfy needs.
Culture
the term ________ refers to an in-depth self-examination of one’s own background, recognizing biases and prejudices and assumptions about other people
Culture Awareness
The subjectively or objectively learned and transmitted values, beliefs, and patterned ways of life that assist, support, or facilitate another individual to maintain well-being and health or to deal with illness, handicaps, or death.
Culture care
Leininger believe that cultures have both health practices that are specific to one culture and prevailing patterns that are common across cultures that’s why she came up with the terms diversity and universality
Culture care
refers to cultural variability or differences in care beliefs, meanings, patterns, values, and lifeways within the culture
Culture care diversity
Refers to the common, similar, or dominant care beliefs, meanings, patterns, values, and lifeways that are manifest among many cultures
Culture care universality
Refers to a formal area of humanistic and scientific knowledge and practices focused on holistic culture care and competencies to assist individuals or groups to maintain or regain their health and to deal with disabilities or other human conditions in culturally congruent and beneficial ways
Transcultural nursing
Leininger identified three modalities that guide nursing judgments, decisions, and actions:
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b.
c.
Transcultural nursing
a. Cultural care preservation or maintenance
b. Cultural care accommodation or negotiation
c. Cultural care repatterning or restructuring
refers to those assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling professional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to retain or maintain care values and lifeways
Transcultural nursing
Cultural care preservation or maintenance
it retain and or preserve relevant care values so that clients can maintain their well-being, recover from illness, or face handicaps and/or death
Transcultural nursing
Cultural care preservation or maintenance
refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling professional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to adapt or negotiate with the others for a beneficial or satisfying health outcome
Transcultural nursing
Cultural care accommodation or negotiation
Refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling professional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to reorder, change, or modify life ways for a new, different and beneficial health care pattern
Transcultural nursing
Cultural care repatterning or restructuring
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
it requires the nurse to assume the role of a learner of the client’s culture and co-partners with the client in defining care.
Culturally congruent care
It is also assumed that when culturally based nursing care is beneficial and healthy, it contributes to the well being of the client; in contrast, when care is not culturally congruent, the client will demonstrate signs of stress, noncompliance, cultural conflict, or ethical concerns.
Culturally congruent care
Refers to 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
Culturally competent care requires specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the delivery of culturally congruent care and awareness.
Culturally competent care
administration of medications must take into consideration some of the patient’s beliefs and practices
Transcultural Nursing
Catholics usually will _____ on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday except for sick patients
fast
Muslims will fast during _______
Ramadan
medications are acceptable to the extent necessary
Jehovah’s witness
Disease in a specific race
sickle cell anemia, hypertension
Africans
Disease in a specific race
Osteoporosis
Asian
Disease in a specific race
cervical cancer (female)
Blacks
Disease in a specific race
prostate cancer (male)
Blacks
Disease in a specific race
breast cancer
Jewish
Disease in a specific race
testicular cancer
Whites
Communication across cultures
rarely communicate their need for analgesics since they were taught self-restraint
Asians
Communication across cultures
discussions pertaining to the reproductive organs with male relatives or health care providers are considered impolite.
Hispanic women
Communication across cultures
prefer to talk to female doctors on matters related to reproductive problems.
Muslim women
Dietary modifications
cold desserts (yin yang) are served after surgery
Chinese
Dietary modifications
main meal is served midday and is usually followed by coffee
Europeans
Dietary modifications
Kosher diet (no meat and dairy products at the same time)
Jewish
Dietary modifications
Halal diet ( no pork)
Muslim
