Madeleine Leininger

person’s life: how they interact with others, how they express emotions, and how they view healthcare. As stated by nurse anthropologist, Madeleine Leininger, in her transcultural nursing theory, nurses must seek to understand other cultures to provide care that is congruent with a patient’s cultural values and practices (Berman and Snyder, 2012, p. 449). Leininger asserts that culturally competent care positively impacts patient’s satisfaction and compliance. Many hospitals and nursing schools…

Health care benefits greatly from improved ethics, better nursing practice and the unprecedented and ongoing work clarifying the genetic basis of health, illness, disease risk, and treatment response. This progress is applicable to the entire spectrum of health care and all health care professionals and as such to the entire nursing profession. Therefore, before a nurse or any health care professional can give quality care, they must first have sufficient knowledge about ethics, genetics and…

Mission The mission of AICN is to provide an innovative, student-centered, learning environment that enables the nursing graduate to deliver safe, quality, evidence-based health care in today’s diverse society at an individual, community and global level. The nursing program here at Aleutian Island College of Nursing, in conjunction with the University of Anchorage Alaska, is to provide the student with core values, ethics and research information. This will be under the guidelines of the…

Professional Roles and Values Task 1 QUP1 A nursing practice is guided by both regulatory agencies and professional nursing organizations which differ in their focus. A regulatory agency oversees the integrity of the nursing practice. One example, the state boards of nursing, ensure the public’s health and welfare by assuring that competent nursing care is provided by knowledgeable and licensed professionals. These agencies collaborate through the National Council of State Boards of Nursing…

Healthcare is made up of various interrelated components that work together to deliver essential care to people from different walks of life. One of the key players on the team are nurses, whose job it is to deliver basic human needs through kindness, and empathetic interpersonal relationships in which they must be responsible for any intentional actions, while advocating for a patient’s well-being ( Burhans, L. M. (2008). Not everyone has the necessary qualities needed to be a devoted nurse,…

During the 1970’s, nursing theory went through a substantial era of development, which contributes to the growth of nursing (Alligood, 2014, p. 7). Also, nursing theory is a valuable part of today’s value-based setting, therefore, it must be wholly recognized to see the full value of nursing care. “It requires the rich and continued development of the discipline where there is a body of knowledge that is uniquely recognized as nursing” (Nickitas & Frederickson, 2015, p. 190). In other words,…

When it comes to the healthcare system, nursing is expected to deliver care based on scientific evidence, including a holistic approach. Therefore, nurses must accomplish a broad range of activities that encourage the promotion of not only safety but also comfort of the patients regardless of their different cultures and beliefs. For example, the interaction and integration among physicians, technicians, and nurses, including the patient have resulted in patient-centered collaborative care.…

and symbols the group accepts, generally without thinking about them? Diversity is a result of the influx of diverse cultures; the United States is rapidly becoming multicultural and multilingual. "The term transcultural nursing was coined by Madeleine Leininger in the 1950's" (Lewis, et al., 2014, p. 24). Transcultural nursing is a defined study focuses on the similar methodology and scrutiny of cultures and subcultures. The goal of transcultural nursing is the authentication of culturally…

Introduction The role of a nurse has been changeable at best and its route into professionalism has been fraught with an arduous struggle to improve education and standards. When considering these standards it is important to examine the differences between regulatory and professional nursing agencies, to understand the code of ethics that guide nursing practice and to be able to effect the professional traits from this code of ethics into practice. During the evolution of nursing, various…