Transcultural Nursing Theory (Madeleine Leininger)
Nursing (Leininger)
A learned humanistic and specific profession and discipline that focuses on phenomena and activities of human care in order to assist, support or facilitate or enable individuals or groups to maintain or regain their well-being in culturally meaningful and beneficial ways. (one of the metaparadigms of nursing)
Cultural Congruent (Nursing) Care (Leininger)
is defined as those cognitively based assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling acts or decisions that are tailor-made to fit with the individual, group or institutional, cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways to provide or support meaningful beneficial, and satisfying health care, or well-being services.
Worldview (Leininger)
is how people look at the world, or the universe, and form a "picture, or value stance" about the world and their live.
Culture (Leininger)
is learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways of a particular group that guides their thinking, decisions, and actions in patterned ways.
Culture Care (Leininger)
is the broadest holistic means to know, explain, interpret, and predict nursing care phenomena to guide nursing care practices.
Care (Leininger)
is the distinct, dominant, unifying, and central focus of nursing, and while curing and healing cannot occur effectively without care, care may occur without a cure.
Environmental Context (Leininger)
is the totality of an event, situation, or particular experience that gives meaning to human expressions, interpretations, and social interactions in particular physical, ecological, sociopolitical, and/or cultural setting.
Cultural care preservation or maintenance (Leininger)
it includes those assistive, supporting, facilitative, or enabling professional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to retain and/or preserve relevant care values so that they can maintain their well-being, recover from illness, or face handicaps and/or death.
Emic (Leininger)
knowledge gained from direct experience or directly from those who have experienced it. It is generic or folk knowledge.
Culture Care (Leininger)
is defined as the subjectively and objectively learned and transmitted values, beliefs, and patterned lifeways that assist, support, facilitate, or enable another individual or group to maintain their well-being, health, improve their human condition lifeway, or deal with illness, handicaps or death.
Madeleine Leininger
Born on July 13, 1925, in Sutton, Nebraska.
Transcultural Nursing (Leininger)
Defined as a learned subfield or branch of nursing that focuses upon the comparative study and analysis of cultures concerning nursing and health-illness caring practices, beliefs, and values to provide meaningful and efficacious nursing care services to their cultural values and health-illness context.
Madeleine Leininger
Her theory is now a nursing discipline that is an integral part of how nurses practice healthcare fields in this day. (her theory was on culture)
Person (Leininger)
Humans are universally caring beings who survive in a diversity of cultures through their ability to provide universality of care in a variety of ways according to differing cultures, needs and settings. Nurse must be sensitive to beliefs, values and practices of each culture.(one of the metaparadigms of nursing)
Amelioration or Improvement (Leininger)
In Leininger's nursing theory, it was stated that the nurse would help the client move towards ___ of their health practice or condition. This statement would be of great difficulty for the nurse because instilling new ideas in a different culture might present an intrusive intent for the "insiders".
Environment (Leininger)
Include events with meaning and interpretations given to them in particular physical, ecological sociopolitical or cultural setting. Behaviors and health are influenced by culture, and assessment of the patient's environment is crucial. (one of the metaparadigms of nursing)
Transcultural Nursing Theory (Leininger)
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 health-illness context.
Professional Nursing Care (Caring by Leininger)
Is defined as 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 to improve a human health condition (or well-being), disability, lifeway, or to work with dying clients.
Transcultural Nursing Theory (Leininger)
It focuses on the fact that different cultures have different caring behaviors and different health and illness values, beliefs, and patterns of behaviors.
Diversity (Leininger)
It helps nurses understand and respect the ___ that is often present in a nurse's patient load. It also helps strengthen a nurse's commitment to nursing based on nurse-patient relationships and emphasizing the whole person rather than viewing the patient as simply a set of symptoms or illness.
Transcultural Nursing Theory (Leininger)
Its main focus is for nursing care to fit with or have beneficial meaning and health outcomes for people of different or similar cultural backgrounds..
Madeleine Leininger
July 13, 1925 - August 10, 2012
Sunrise Model (Leininger)
Leininger has developed the ___ in a logical order to demonstrate the interrelationships of the concepts in her theory of Cultural Care Diversity and Universality.
Transcultural Nursing; Culture Care Theory (Leininger)
Leininger identified a lack of cultural and care knowledge as the missing component to a nurse's understanding of the many variations required inpatient care to support compliance, healing, and wellness, which led her to develop the theory of ___ also known as ___
Parsimonious (Leininger)
Leininger's theory is essentially ___ in the necessary concepts are incorporated in such a manner that the theory and its model can be applied in many different settings.
Nursing Care Decisions (Leininger)
Next are ___ and actions which involve care preservation/maintenance, cultural care accommodation/negotiation, and cultural care re-patterning or restructuring. It is here that nursing is delivered.
Madeleine Leininger
Opened a psychiatric nursing service and educational program at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. While working in a child guidance home during the 1950s, she experienced what she described as a cultural shock when she realized that children's recurrent behavioral patterns appeared to have a cultural basis. She identified a lack of cultural and care knowledge as the missing link to nursing.
Madeleine Leininger
She earned a nursing diploma from St. Anthony's Hospital School of Nursing, followed by her undergraduate degrees at Mount St. Scholastica College and Creighton university.
Madeleine Leininger
She is a Certified Transcultural Nurse, a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in Australia, and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
Madeleine Leininger
She lived on a farm with her four brothers and sisters and graduated from Sutton Hight School. After graduation from Sutton High, she was in the U.S. Army Nursing Corps while pursuing a basic nursing program. In 1945, she, together with her sister, entered the Cadet Nurse Corps, a federally-funded program to increase the number of nurses trained to meet anticipated needs during World War II.
Madeleine Leininger
She was the first in the 1960s to coin the concept of "culturally congruent care".
Cultural Care Worldview (Leininger)
The ___ flows into knowledge about individuals, families, groups, communities, and institutions in diverse health care systems. This knowledge provides culturally specific meanings and expressions about care and health.
Sunrise Model (Leininger)
The ___ is relevant because it enables nurses to develop critical and complex thoughts about nursing practice.
Generic of Folk System (Leininger)
The next focus of Transcultural Nursing Theory is on the ___, professional care systems, and nursing care. Information allows for the identification of similarities and differences or cultural care universality and cultural care diversity.
Transcultural Nursing Theory
Theorized by Madeleine Leininger
Ethnonursing (Leininger)
This is 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.
Health (Leininger)
This is universal across cultures but specific to each individual culture. (one of the metaparadigms of nursing)
Culture Shock (Leininger)
This may lead to anger and be reduced by seeking knowledge of the culture before encountering that culture.
Transcultural Nursing Theory (Leininger)
This theory attempts to provide culturally congruent nursing care through "cognitively based assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling acts of decisions that are mostly tailor-maid to fit with the individual, groups, or institution's culture values, beliefs, and lifeways".
culturally congruent care (Leininger)
This was the goal of the Theory of Culture Care, and today the concept is being used globally.
Cultural care preservation or maintenance, Cultural care accommodation or Negotiation, and Culture care repatterning or restructuring (Leininger)
Three Modes of Nursing Care Decisions and Actions
Cultural Knowledge (Leininger)
Using ___ to treat a patient also helps a nurse be open-minded treatments that can be considered non-traditional, such as spiritually based therapies like meditation and anointing.
Madeleine Leininger
Was an internationally known educator, author, theorist, administrator, public speaker, and the developer of the concept of transcultural nursing that has a great impact on how to deal with patients of different culture and cultural background.
Sunrise Model (Leininger)
With these, she has developed the ___ in a logical order to demonstrate the interrelationships of the concepts in her theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
Nursing Care (Leininger)
aims to provide care congruent with cultural values, beliefs, and practices.
Generic (Folk or Lay) Care System (Leininger)
are culturally learned and transmitted, indigenous (or traditional), folk (home-based) knowledge and skills used to provide assistive, supportive, enabling or facilitative acts towards or for another individual, group, or institution with evident or anticipated needs to ameliorate or improve human way, health condition (or well-being), or to deal with handicaps and death situations.
Professional Care Systems (Leininger)
are defined as 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.
Cultural and Social Structure Dimensions (Leininger)
are defined as involving the dynamic patterns and features of interrelated structural and organizational factors of a particular culture (subcultural 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.
Care (Leininger)
as a noun is defined as those 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.
Nursing (Leininger)
as a transcultural care discipline and profession, has a central purpose of serving human beings in all areas of the world; that when culturally based nursing care is beneficial and health, it contributes to the well-being of the client(s) - whether individuals, groups, families, communities, or institutions - as they function within the context of their environments. (one of the metaparadigms of nursing)
Care (Leininger)
as a verb is defined as actions and activities directed toward assisting, supporting, or enabling another individual or group with evident or anticipated needs to ameliorate or improve a human condition or lifeway or face death.
Ethnohistory (Leininger)
includes those past facts, events, instances, experiences of individuals, groups, cultures, and instructions that are primarily people-centered (ethno) and describe, explain, and interpret human lifeways within particular cultural contexts over short or long periods of time.
Culture Care Universality (Leininger)
indicates the common, similar, or dominant uniform care meanings, patterns, values, lifeways or symbols manifest among many cultures and reflect assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling ways to help people.
Culture Care Diversity (Leininger)
indicates the variabilities and/or differences in meanings, patterns, values, lifeways or symbols of care within or between collective related to assistive, supportive, or enable human care expressions.
Culture (Leininger)
is a strong set of practices developed over generations that would make it difficult to penetrate.
Culture care repatterning or restructuring (Leininger)
includes those assistive, supporting, facilitative, enabling professional actions and decisions that help clients reorder, change, or greatly modify their lifeways for, new different and beneficial health care patters while respecting the client's cultural, values and beliefs and still providing a beneficial or healthier lifeway than before the changes were established with the clients.
Cultural care accommodation or Negotiation (Leininger)
includes those assistive, supportive or enabling creative professional actions and decisions that help people of a designated culture to adapt to or negotiate with others for a beneficial or satisfying health outcome with professional care providers.
Culture Shock (Leininger)
may result when an outsider attempts to comprehend or adapt effectively to a different culture group. The outsider is likely to experience feelings of discomfort and helplessness and some degree of disorientation because of the differences in cultural values, beliefs, and practices.
Nursing (Leininger)
must be sensitive to their patient's cultural backgrounds when creating a nursing plan, this is especially important since so many people's culture is so integral in who they are as individuals, and it is the culture that can greatly affect their health and their reactions to treatments and care (one of the metaparadigms of nursing)
Cultural Impositions (Leininger)
refers to the outsider's efforts, both subtle and not so subtly impose their own cultural values, beliefs, behaviors upon an individual, family, or group from another culture.
Etic (Leininger)
the knowledge that describes the professional perspective. It is the professional care knowledge.
Madeleine Leininger
wrote and edited 27 books and founded the Journal of Transcultural Nursing to support the Transcultural Nursing Society's research, which she started in 1974.
