Transcultural nursing

Assessing Gier and Davihizar’s Transcultural Model Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Nursing Assessment model has become an important framework for nurses to provide optimal care to patients who are culturally diverse. This framework was created as a response to the need for nursing students in an undergraduate program who needed to provide care for patients with different backgrounds. This model uses six components a nurse should assess for regarding the unique culture of each person.…

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…

minimal suffering involved. The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model is a great tool for nurses to use when it comes to caring for patients of a different culture. This paper takes that model and applies it to Buddhism and how a nurse can care for a Buddhist patient at the end of life stage. Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model In 1988, Dr. Joyce Newman Giger and Dr. Ruth Davidhizar discovered that the nursing profession needed a formalized framework for how to…

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 relevant facts, and competence can guide the nurse in providing culturally appropriate…

Culture is an important aspect in Nursing, this is why the need for transcultural nursing is undeniable, as they must provide care to others from various cultures and religious backgrounds, particularly in the UK as it has large multicultural societies. Although, as nurses we have our own cultural background, likewise do those we work and care for. Culture is a term that is used globally and is defined as “Constantly changing and evolving, no society or community is static. Just as language…

Transcultural nursing recognizes the influence of cultural factors on the human experience including the individual’s views of well-being, health, illness and death. To effectively plan care and interventions that the patient will positively respond to, it’s essential that the nurse learn about the patient’s culture (Andrews & Boyle, 2016). For this week’s discussion post I will review how the Hispanic culture perceives communication, space, social organization, time, and environmental control…

In this paper I will discuss the eight reasons why Leininger believes transcultural nursing is a necessity. I will also give the meaning of cultural diversity in my own words and how it relates to the field of nursing. Lastly, I will explain three ways in which I provide culturally sensitive care to my patients. Leininger has eight reasons that she believes describe why transcultural nursing is a necessity. The first reason is because there has been a large increase in migration between…

of transcultural nursing practices allow nurses to deliver culturally competent care. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the reasons why transcultural nursing is necessary as a specialty, explain cultural diversity and how it is applied in nursing practice. Finally, I will provide examples on how I practice culturally sensitive care. Transcultural Nursing as a Necessary Specialty Madeline Leininger examined how the fields of nursing and anthropology were related. Transcultural nursing was…

Cultural Diversity and Its Influence on Nursing Practice Cultural Diversity is a key component to quality patient centered care. The Nurse needs to be aware of their own cultural attitudes. It is also very import that as nurses we understand the patient’s cultural preferences and needs. Cultural competence is becoming more important because of the increase in cultural diversity in our country. In the United States 13% of our population was not born in this country and another 8-10million are…

Nursing Theorist Madeleine Leininger Madeleine Leininger’s groundbreaking work in the field of cultural care transformed the nursing profession and laid groundwork in the deliverance of care that holds true today. Leininger was zealous in her pursuit to deliver care that would be effective and not compromise one’s belief system. Leininger’s theory promoted change in nursing practice by rationalizing an individualized care system. By caring, she brought about optimal healing in a culturally…