Madeline Leininger

Question 1

Aims to 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.

Answer 1

Transcultural Nursing Theory

Question 2

Involves knowing and understanding different cultures concerning nursing and health-illness caring practices, beliefs, and values to provide meaningful and efficacious nursing care services to people’s cultural values and health-illness context.

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Transcultural Nursing Theory

Question 3

Major area of nursing focused on comparative study and analysis of diverse cultures and subcultures in the world with respect to their caring values, expressions, and health-illness beliefs and patterns of behavior.

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Transcultural Nursing

Question 4

Expression of assistive, supportive, enabling, and facilitating ways toward or about self or others

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Care

Question 5

Learned and transmitted; indigenous, traditional or local folk (emic) knowledge and practices.

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Generic Care

Question 6

Refers to formal cognitively learned professional care knowledge and practices obtained through educational institutions.

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Professional Care

Question 7

Culturally based care knowledge, acts, and decisions used in sensitive, creative, and meaningful ways to appropriately fit the cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways of clients.

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Culturally Congruent Care

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Founder of Transcultural Nursing Theory

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Madeline Leininger