Madeleine Leininger Flashcards
Madeleine Leininger
Transcultural Nursing Theory
- The purpose of the theory is to discover human care diversities.
- analysis of diverse cultures and subcultures in the world
Transcultural Nursing Theory
Refers to actions, attitudes, or practices to assist others toward healing and well-being.
Caring
expressions of assistive, supportive, enabling, and facilitating ways toward or about self or others.
Care
indigenous, traditional or local folk (emic) knowledge and practices
Generic Care
nursing care refers to formal cognitively learned professional care knowledge and practices
Professional Care
- refers to learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways of a particular culture.
- ___________ is equally as important as care
Culture
refers to the synthesis of care and culture that guide the researcher to discover & explain health, well-being, care expressions
Culture Care
refers to the differences in culture care beliefs
Culture care diversity
meaningful ways to appropriately fit the cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways of clients
Culturally congruent care
refers to commonly shared or similar cultural care phenomena
Culture Care Universality
refers to the way people look out on their world
Worldview
refer to the dynamic, holistic, and interrelated patterns of structured features of a culture include technology factors; religious and
philosophical factors; kinship and social factors; cultural values, beliefs
Cultural and Social Structure Dimensions
refers to the sequence of past facts, events, instances, or help explain past and current lifeways about culture
Ethnohistory
refers to local, indigenous, or the insider cultural knowledge and views about specific phenomena.
Emic
refers to the outsider or stranger (often health professionals) views or institutional or system knowledge and interpreted values about cultural phenomena
Etic
refers to a state of well-being that is culturally defined
Health
“la dolce vita”
which translates to “the sweet life.”
refers to assistive, supportive professional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to retain
Culture care preservation or maintenance
refers to those assistive, supportive or enabling professional actions and decisions
Culture care repatterning or restructuring
- refers to those assistive, accommodating creative professional care actions.
- to adapt to or negotiate
Culture care accommodation or negotiation
