Madeleine Leininger Theory

Question 1

What motivates Leiniger?

Answer 1

It was due to her aunt who suffered from congenital heart disease that led her to pursue a career in nursing.

Question 2

The central purpose of this theory is to discover and explain diverse and universally culturally based care factors influencing health, well-being, illness, or death of individual or groups.

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Transcultural Nursing Theory

Question 3

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

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Transcultural Nursing

Question 4

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

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Ethnonursing

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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 or for another individual or group in order to improve a human health condition

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Professional Nursing Care

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involves dynamic patterns and features of interrelated structural and organizational factors of a particular culture (subculture or society) which includes religious, kinship (social), political (and legal), economic, educational, technological and cultural values, ethnohistorical factors, and how these factors may be interrelated and function to influence human behavior in different environmental contexts.

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Cultural and Social Structure Dimension

Question 7

Refers to assisting, supporting, enabling behaviors that ease or improve a person’s condition.
Essential for a person’s survival, development, and ability to deal with life’s events.

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Care

Question 8

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.

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Cultural Care

Question 9

Refers to the outlook of a person based on a view of the world or universe.

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Worldview

Question 10

Refers to care or care practices that have special meaning in the culture.

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Folk health or Well being System

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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.

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Traditional Concepts of Illness Causality

Question 12

This is learned by each generation through both formal and informal
life experiences.

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Concept of Culture

Question 13

It is an in-depth examination of one’s own background, recognizing biases and prejudices, and assumptions about other people.

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Cultural Awareness

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Retain and or preserve relevant care values so that clients can maintain their well-being, recover from illness, or face handicaps and/or death.

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Cultural preservation or maintenance

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Adapt/negotiate with others for a beneficial or satisfying health outcome

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Cultural care accommodation or negotiation

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Change or greatly modify client’s life ways for a new, different and beneficial health care pattern

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Cultural care repatterning or restructuring

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enables nurses to develop critical and complex thoughts towards nursing practice.

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Sunrise Model

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the goal of the nurse is to render efficient and effective nursing care.

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Sunrise Model

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Learned humanistic and scientific profession and discipline which is 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.

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Nursing

Question 20

Believed to be caring and to be capable of being concerned about the needs, well-being, and survival of others. Leininger also indicates that nursing as a caring science should focus beyond traditional nurse-patient interactions and dyads to include families, groups, communities, total cultures, and institutions.

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Person

Question 21

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.

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Health