Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Nursing Assessment Framework:
Analysis of Pregnancy and Birth in the Jewish Culture
Introduction
The Jewish culture is one that nurses may encounter when caring for patients throughout their career. Joyce Giger and Ruth Davidhizar created the Transcultural Nursing Assessment Framework to help nurses assess patients using their culture as a starting consideration. It breaks it down into six components to consider when analyzing cultures to help with nursing care. After understanding what each component entails, a nurse can apply it to the culture they are helping. The aim of this paper is to utilize Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Nursing Assessment Framework to analyze pregnancy and birth within the Jewish culture; furthermore, it demonstrates how culture can effectively help in the nursing interventions and care provided.
Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Nursing Assessment Framework
The framework created by Giger and Davidhizar, Transcultural Nursing Assessment framework, enables healthcare workers to assess patients using culture as a main point of reference. Each culture is unique, and their framework recognizes this value in culture. They analyze culture based on communication, space, social organization, time, environmental …show more content…
In the case of birth, Orthodox Jews have more strict views on the sense of space. Husbands cannot view the birth of their child because they are forbidden by their religion to “[observe] his wife when she is immodestly exposed…and from touching her when there is vaginal bleeding” (Callister, Semenic, & Foster, 1999, p. 285). This is important to recognize because the husband may observe from the foot of the bed or sit in another room and pray for his wife. In their culture, there is a mutual understanding between the husband and wife that support can come from that distance and prayer because of the learned values from their
Analysis of Pregnancy and Birth in the Jewish Culture
Introduction
The Jewish culture is one that nurses may encounter when caring for patients throughout their career. Joyce Giger and Ruth Davidhizar created the Transcultural Nursing Assessment Framework to help nurses assess patients using their culture as a starting consideration. It breaks it down into six components to consider when analyzing cultures to help with nursing care. After understanding what each component entails, a nurse can apply it to the culture they are helping. The aim of this paper is to utilize Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Nursing Assessment Framework to analyze pregnancy and birth within the Jewish culture; furthermore, it demonstrates how culture can effectively help in the nursing interventions and care provided.
Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Nursing Assessment Framework
The framework created by Giger and Davidhizar, Transcultural Nursing Assessment framework, enables healthcare workers to assess patients using culture as a main point of reference. Each culture is unique, and their framework recognizes this value in culture. They analyze culture based on communication, space, social organization, time, environmental …show more content…
In the case of birth, Orthodox Jews have more strict views on the sense of space. Husbands cannot view the birth of their child because they are forbidden by their religion to “[observe] his wife when she is immodestly exposed…and from touching her when there is vaginal bleeding” (Callister, Semenic, & Foster, 1999, p. 285). This is important to recognize because the husband may observe from the foot of the bed or sit in another room and pray for his wife. In their culture, there is a mutual understanding between the husband and wife that support can come from that distance and prayer because of the learned values from their