We live in a multicultural world, where people from various ethnicities, backgrounds, culture and beliefs are living among one another. With the increasing number of people with different beliefs and cultures needing treatment, HCP’s need to be aware of the practice and beliefs of these people to provide effective treatment. Leininger recognized this in the 1950’s and began developing a theory which would address this issue. Her culture care theory of diversity and universality is the basis for many HCP’s, as many of them use her theory to provide culturally competent care for people of various cultures. The goal of culture care theory is culturally congruent care (Fitzpatrick & Kaser, 2011) and consists of three theoretical care modes and
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Indeed it makes sense that to accommodate to globalization and immigration that the nursing discipline continue to grow and be diverse as a diversity of staff will create more opportunities for cultural knowledge to be shared among staff. According to Lancellotti it is also difficult to imagine that the nursing profession could remain isolated from such a powerful social issue [racism]. Leininger’s stranger to trusted friend enabler is the process where a researcher comes to know another human being in the context of their culture. This process reveals the relationship of one human being to another, where differences are acknowledged valued and respected which contradicts the dehumanization of people that supports racism (Lancellotti, 2008). Especially after 9/11 the need for understanding of transcultural violence, terrorism, hatred and the killing of innocent people has increased. In 1950 Leininger predicted such violence would occur unless transcultural care knowledge was used worldwide to prevent such destructive human acts (Leininger, …show more content…
Economic Reality
Culture care modes not only promote culturally congruent care, but may also lead to increased client satisfaction, pleasant hospital stay, improved client cooperation and faster recovery rate (Wehbe-Alamah, 2008) which is great for the economy as decreased hospital stays results in decreased funds spent.
Personal Appraisal
Barriers
It is wrong to assume that all members of a cultural group follow the same universal values and norms, as acculturation and enculturation processes play a role in the level of adherence to cultural principles (Wehbe-Alamah, 2008). This is why nurses need to be knowledgeable about specific cultures, so they can perform individual cultural assessments (Douglas et al., 2014) to prevent generalizing. Lancellotti (2008) points out a lack of diversity of HCP’s to be creating health disparities. Diversity among HCP’s can prevent health disparities as colleagues can use each other as a source of knowledge to increase cultural awareness. Furthermore, the superficial application of Culture Care Theory in textbooks can present as a barrier. For example, stereotypes of foods or religious beliefs of a few cultures will be provided, however the fact that the information is not generalizable will lead to students misinterpreting the information
Indeed it makes sense that to accommodate to globalization and immigration that the nursing discipline continue to grow and be diverse as a diversity of staff will create more opportunities for cultural knowledge to be shared among staff. According to Lancellotti it is also difficult to imagine that the nursing profession could remain isolated from such a powerful social issue [racism]. Leininger’s stranger to trusted friend enabler is the process where a researcher comes to know another human being in the context of their culture. This process reveals the relationship of one human being to another, where differences are acknowledged valued and respected which contradicts the dehumanization of people that supports racism (Lancellotti, 2008). Especially after 9/11 the need for understanding of transcultural violence, terrorism, hatred and the killing of innocent people has increased. In 1950 Leininger predicted such violence would occur unless transcultural care knowledge was used worldwide to prevent such destructive human acts (Leininger, …show more content…
Economic Reality
Culture care modes not only promote culturally congruent care, but may also lead to increased client satisfaction, pleasant hospital stay, improved client cooperation and faster recovery rate (Wehbe-Alamah, 2008) which is great for the economy as decreased hospital stays results in decreased funds spent.
Personal Appraisal
Barriers
It is wrong to assume that all members of a cultural group follow the same universal values and norms, as acculturation and enculturation processes play a role in the level of adherence to cultural principles (Wehbe-Alamah, 2008). This is why nurses need to be knowledgeable about specific cultures, so they can perform individual cultural assessments (Douglas et al., 2014) to prevent generalizing. Lancellotti (2008) points out a lack of diversity of HCP’s to be creating health disparities. Diversity among HCP’s can prevent health disparities as colleagues can use each other as a source of knowledge to increase cultural awareness. Furthermore, the superficial application of Culture Care Theory in textbooks can present as a barrier. For example, stereotypes of foods or religious beliefs of a few cultures will be provided, however the fact that the information is not generalizable will lead to students misinterpreting the information