1. Using Leininger’s Culture Care Model, what factors in the story shared by Mrs. Franklin-Jones should be considered by Nurse Hernandez when planning for the patient’s discharge?
Mrs. Franklin-Jones shared a few important information that should concern the nurse when planning a discharge instruction. Education regarding four factors that are identified are needed. The four factors include importance of taking medications as prescribed, following cardiac diet, taking rest, and raising caution of drinking herbal tea as a supplement. First, compliance of prescribed medication should be addressed. The nurse should educate Mrs. Franklin-Jones need to take medications as prescribed in order to maintain a therapeutic level in the system. Furthermore, …show more content…
Mrs. Franklin-Jones can alter the way of cooking Jamaican food at home to ensure the food contains low salt, low fat and high fiber. Dr. Leininger’s culture care model introduced transcultural nursing care that promoted culture care diversity. Dr. Leininger believed that caring for people of many cultures was a critical and essential need (Ray, 2012). In addition to addressing the concern of importance of taking prescribed medications and the concern of following her own culture with altered cooking style, the nurse should also emphasize the importance of enough rest. Two jobs may overwhelm Mrs. Franklin-Jones, which can aggravates her heart disease. Taking adequate rest between shits can help Mrs. Franklin-Jones to regain energy. The last, although drinking herbal tea is a sign of cultural matter, researching the benefits and risks of bush tea is necessary for Mrs. Franklin-Jones. According to recent study, Professor Dalip Ragoobirsingh, the director of the UWI (Mona) Diabetes Education Program, stated that there was widespread use of bush teas for a variety of illness including kidney problems. The study showed that although these bush teas had possible beneficial …show more content…
Using Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, develop a plan of care for Mrs. Franklin-Jones.
The plan of care for Mrs. Franklin-Jones can be quiet comprehensive and complicated. In order to planning a care for her, the four factors are needed to be addressed, which includes importance of taking medications as prescribed, following cardiac diet, taking rest, and raising caution of drinking herbal tea as a supplement. The nurse should follow the nurse process: nursing assessment, nursing diagnosis, nursing intervention, and nursing evaluation. It is important to assess and identify the gaps of knowledge deficits regarding the medication compliance, cardiac diet, enough rest, and dietary supplement. After the gaps of knowledge deficits are identified, specific teaching should be provided to Mrs. Franklin-Jones. For example, since Mrs. Franklin-Jones concerns that she forgot to take medications sometimes, the nurse should instruct her to use a weekly medication divider box and place the box on the dinner table, which will reminder to take the medication whenever she is ready to have a meal. Another good example of teaching for Mrs. Franklin-Jones is to provide print-outs for cardiac diet and research of benefits and risks of drinking bush tea. The nurse should provide comprehensive education regarding the identified gap of knowledge deficits during the discharge
Mrs. Franklin-Jones shared a few important information that should concern the nurse when planning a discharge instruction. Education regarding four factors that are identified are needed. The four factors include importance of taking medications as prescribed, following cardiac diet, taking rest, and raising caution of drinking herbal tea as a supplement. First, compliance of prescribed medication should be addressed. The nurse should educate Mrs. Franklin-Jones need to take medications as prescribed in order to maintain a therapeutic level in the system. Furthermore, …show more content…
Mrs. Franklin-Jones can alter the way of cooking Jamaican food at home to ensure the food contains low salt, low fat and high fiber. Dr. Leininger’s culture care model introduced transcultural nursing care that promoted culture care diversity. Dr. Leininger believed that caring for people of many cultures was a critical and essential need (Ray, 2012). In addition to addressing the concern of importance of taking prescribed medications and the concern of following her own culture with altered cooking style, the nurse should also emphasize the importance of enough rest. Two jobs may overwhelm Mrs. Franklin-Jones, which can aggravates her heart disease. Taking adequate rest between shits can help Mrs. Franklin-Jones to regain energy. The last, although drinking herbal tea is a sign of cultural matter, researching the benefits and risks of bush tea is necessary for Mrs. Franklin-Jones. According to recent study, Professor Dalip Ragoobirsingh, the director of the UWI (Mona) Diabetes Education Program, stated that there was widespread use of bush teas for a variety of illness including kidney problems. The study showed that although these bush teas had possible beneficial …show more content…
Using Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, develop a plan of care for Mrs. Franklin-Jones.
The plan of care for Mrs. Franklin-Jones can be quiet comprehensive and complicated. In order to planning a care for her, the four factors are needed to be addressed, which includes importance of taking medications as prescribed, following cardiac diet, taking rest, and raising caution of drinking herbal tea as a supplement. The nurse should follow the nurse process: nursing assessment, nursing diagnosis, nursing intervention, and nursing evaluation. It is important to assess and identify the gaps of knowledge deficits regarding the medication compliance, cardiac diet, enough rest, and dietary supplement. After the gaps of knowledge deficits are identified, specific teaching should be provided to Mrs. Franklin-Jones. For example, since Mrs. Franklin-Jones concerns that she forgot to take medications sometimes, the nurse should instruct her to use a weekly medication divider box and place the box on the dinner table, which will reminder to take the medication whenever she is ready to have a meal. Another good example of teaching for Mrs. Franklin-Jones is to provide print-outs for cardiac diet and research of benefits and risks of drinking bush tea. The nurse should provide comprehensive education regarding the identified gap of knowledge deficits during the discharge