Madeleine Leininger: Transcultural Nursing Theory

Question 1

1) Discover and explain diverse and universal culturally based care factors influencing the health, well-being, illness, or death of individual or groups.
2) Use findings to provide culturally congruent safe and meaningful care to clients of similar or diverse cultures.

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The Purpose of the Transcultural Nursing:

Question 2

• Human being

- Caring and capable of being concerned about others

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Person

Question 3

• Not specifically defined

- Worldwide, social structure, and environmental context.

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Environment

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• State of well-being
• Ability of individuals to perform their roles
• Health systems, health care practices, health patterns, and health promotion and maintenance
• State of well-being or a restorative state is culturally constituted, defined, valued, and practiced by individuals or groups and that enabled them to function in their daily lives.

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Health

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• Personalized behaviors, functions, processes to promote and maintain health or recover from illness
• Has physical, psycho-cultural, and social significance for those being assisted.

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Nursing

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1) Culture care preservation or maintenance
2) Culture care accommodation or negotiation
3) Culture care restructuring or repatterning

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3 Modes of Nursing Care:

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• Assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling professional actions and decisions.
• Helps retain and maintain meaningful care values for their well-being.

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Culture care preservation or maintenance

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• Helps people of a designed culture to adapt or negotiate with others for meaningful, beneficial congruent health outcomes.

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Culture care accommodation or negotiation

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Helps clients reorder, change, or modify their lifeways for new different and beneficial health outcomes.

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Culture care restructuring or repatterning

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• Assisting, supporting, or enabling behaviors that ease a person’s condition
• Essential for survival, development, and ability to deal with everyday living.

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Human Caring

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Patterned life ways, values, beliefs, norms, symbols, and practices of individuals, groups that are learned, shared, and usually transmitted to one generation to another.

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Culture

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• Values and beliefs that assist, support, or enable another person or group to maintain well-being, improve condition, or face death or disability
• To provide appropriate care to clients, families, and communities.

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Culture Care

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• Differences in meanings, patterns, values, lifeways or symbols of care within and between cultures and human beings.

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Culture Care Diversity

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• Commonalities of values, norms of behaviors, and life patterns that are similar among different cultures.

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Cultural Universals

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• Dynamic holistic and interrelated patterns of structured feature of culture.
• It includes religion (spirituality), kinship (social), political characteristics (legal), economics, and etc.

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Cultural and Social Structure Dimension