In the article “Caring: An Essential Human Need” by Madeline Leininger, she identifies caring as the main focus of the discipline of nursing. Madeline Leininger (2013) states that caring, she believes is the “sine qua non of the nursing profession” (p.130) Caring adequately distinguishes nursing from other disciplines in a clear way. Nursing or any healthcare profession is known to be built off of caring, it might even be the only profession where caring is a requirement. So the more our nurses are caring, empathic, and understanding towards their patients the more respected, and unique of a disciple nursing becomes. So the more we continue the teaching and practice of caring the more distinguishable we will be, which will then change the way people view our profession. Instead of just viewing us on medicine and curing people we will instead strictly be known for our caring behaviors to our patients and how satisfied they are.
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In the book “Culture care diversity & universality: A worldwide nursing theory” Cultural care is defined as a “substantive area of study and practice focused on comparative cultural values, beliefs, and practices of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures” (Leininger, 2006, p.94). In this day and age, we live in a very culturally diverse world and nurses should be able to have the knowledge to easily adapt to different cultures. A cultural barrier should not be what limits a nurse from providing her care to a patient. For example, if a nurse identifies that her patient’s prayer rituals are very important she might therefor rearrange care so that rituals can go on uninterrupted while the patient is being hospitalized. Not only is this culture caring but the fact that you are taking your patient's prayer rituals into consideration shows respect and understanding which ties into
In the book “Culture care diversity & universality: A worldwide nursing theory” Cultural care is defined as a “substantive area of study and practice focused on comparative cultural values, beliefs, and practices of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures” (Leininger, 2006, p.94). In this day and age, we live in a very culturally diverse world and nurses should be able to have the knowledge to easily adapt to different cultures. A cultural barrier should not be what limits a nurse from providing her care to a patient. For example, if a nurse identifies that her patient’s prayer rituals are very important she might therefor rearrange care so that rituals can go on uninterrupted while the patient is being hospitalized. Not only is this culture caring but the fact that you are taking your patient's prayer rituals into consideration shows respect and understanding which ties into