Madeleine M. Leinenger Flashcards
What is the theory of Leinenger
Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
derived from the disciplines of anthropology and nursing -designed to discover care
Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
discover human care diversities and universalities in relation to worldview, cultural and social structure dimensions, and ways to provide culturally congruent care with people of various cultures to maintain or regain their well-being or health, or face death in a culturally appropriate way
purpose of the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
provide culturally congruent care to people that is beneficial and fits with the client, family, or culture group healthy life ways
goal of the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
major area of nursing focused on comparative study and analysis of diverse cultures and subcultures with the world with respect to their caring values expressions, and health illness beliefs and patterns of behavior
Transcultural caring
nurses prepared in transcultural nursing who are committed to developing knowledge and practice in transcultural nursing
Transcultural nursing
nurses who use applied or medical anthropological concepts
Cross-cultural nursing
nurse prepared at the baccalaureate level who is able to apply transcultural nursing concepts, principles and practices
Generalist
prepared in graduate programs and receives in-depth preparation and mentorship in transcultural nursing knowledge and practice
Specialist
abstract and concrete phenomena related to assisting, supporting, or enabling experiences or behaviors toward or for others with evident or anticipated needs to ameliorate or improve a human condition or lifeway
Care
refers to actions, attitudes, or practices to assist others toward healing and well-being. It is another individual or group with evident or anticipated needs to ameliorate or improve a human condition or lifeway, or to face death.
Caring
what does caring include
assisting, supporting, and enabling
The culturally learned and transmitted, indigenous (or traditional), folk (home based) knowledge and skills used to provide assistive, supportive, enabling and facilitative acts toward or for another individual, group, or institution with evident or anticipated needs to ameliorate or improve a human lifeways or health condition (or well-being), or to deal with handicaps and death situations
Generic Care System
formally taught, learned, and transmitted professional care, health, illness, wellness and related knowledge and practice skills that prevail in professional institutions usually with multidisciplinary personnel to serve consumers
Professional Care System
Learned, shared, and transmitted, values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways of a particular group that guides their thinking, decisions, and actions in patterned ways.
Culture
equally important as care but not an adverb or adjective to care
Culture
The subjectively and objectively learned and transmitted values, beliefs, and patterned lifeways that assist, support, facilitate, or enable another individual or group
culture care
To improve their human condition and lifeway
culture care
based care knowledge, acts, and decisions used in sensitive, creative, and meaningful ways to appropriately fit the cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways of clients for their health and wellbeing, or to prevent or face illness, disabilities or death
culturally congruent care
refers to the variabilities or differences in culture care beliefs, meanings, patterns, values, symbols, lifeways and other features among human beings related to providing beneficial care for clients from a designated culture that are related to assistive, supportive, or enabling human care expressions
culture care diversity
refers to the commonly shared or similar cultural care phenomena features of human beings or groups with recurrent meanings, patterns, values, symbols or lifeways that serve as a guide for caregivers provide assistive, supportive facilitative, or enabling people care for healthy outcomes
culture care universality
Refers to the way people tend to look out on the world or their universe to form a picture or a value stance about their life or world around them.
Worldview
provides a broad perspective about one’s orientation to life, people, or groups that influence care or caring responses that guides one’s decisions or actions, especially related to matters of health or well-being
worldview
the dynamic, holistic, and interrelated patterns of structured features of a culture (or subculture)
Cultural and Social Structure Dimensions
what are the factors in Cultural and Social Structure Dimensions
o Religious and philosophical factors
o Kinship and social factors
o Cultural values, beliefs and lifeways
o Political and legal factors
o Economic factors
o Educational factors
o Environmental context, language and ethnohistory
the totality of an event, situation, or particular experience that gives meaning to human expression, interpretations, and social interactions
Environmental context
particular environmental context
- Physical
- Ecological
- Sociopolitical
- Cultural settings
the past facts, events, instance, and experiences of individuals, groups, cultures, and institutions that are primarily people centered (ethno) and that describe, explain, and interpret human lifeways within particular cultural contexts and over short or long periods
Ethnohistory
helps explain past and current lifeways about culture care influencers affecting the health and well-being, disability, or death of people
Ethnohistory
refers to the stranger or often health professional views or institutional or system knowledge and interpreted values about cultural phenomena
Etic (outsider)
local, indigenous, or the insider cultural knowledge and views about specific phenomena
Emic (insider)
a state of well-being that is culturally defined, valued and practiced and reflects the ability of individuals (or groups) to perform their daily role activities in culturally expressed, beneficial and patterned lifeways
Health
Those assistive, supporting, facilitative, or enabling professional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to retain, preserve, or maintain meaningful care beliefs and values for their well-being, to recover from illness, or to deal with handicaps of dying
Culture Care Preservation or Maintenance
refers to those assistive, accommodating, facilitative, or enabling creative professional care actions and decisions that help people of a designated culture (or subculture) to adapt to or negotiate with others for culturally congruent, safe, effective care for meaningful and beneficial health outcomes
Culture Care Accommodation or Negotiation
the assistive, supportive facilitative or enabling professional actions and decisions that helps client reorder, change or modify their lifeways for beneficial health care patterns, practices or outcomes
Culture Care Repatterning or Restructuring
Refers to a learned humanistic and scientific profession and discipline that is focused on human care phenomena and activities to assist, support, facilitate, or enable individuals or groups.
Nursing
This is to maintain or regain their well-being in culturally meaningful and beneficial ways, or to hope people face handicaps or death
Nursing
- Believed to be caring and capable of being concerned about the
desires, welfare, and continued existence of others - Human care is collective, seen in all cultures
- Includes families, groups, communities, total cultures,
institutions, as well as world health institutions
Person
being totality of an event, situation, or experience
Environmental Framework
A particular group (society) and the patterning of actions, thoughts, and decisions that occurs as the result of the “learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways.”
Culture
- A key concept in transcultural nursing
- Is universal
- Is diverse
Health
3 types culturally-based nursing actions consistent with client needs and values
- Cultural care preservation/maintenance
- Cultural care accommodation/negotiation
- Cultural care repatterning/ restructuring
depicts human beings as inseparable from their cultural backgrounds and social structure factors, worldview, history, and environmental context.
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