Transcultural nursing

individual. To provide an effective, holistic, individualized care to patients nurses should have “an honest desire to disregard personal biases and to treat every person with respect.“ In day-to-day practices it is challenging to provide appropriate nursing care for patients from many different cultures. Prejudice, biases, stereotyping and ignoring the differences are the barriers to the good verbal and non-verbal communication between patients and nurses, to accommodating the patient's needs.…

Caring in Nursing Practice Caring is a central component of nursing practice (Burtson & Stichler, 2010). Research on the concept of caring in nursing has shown that there is a strong correlation between caring and patient satisfaction (Burtson & Stichler, 2010). Furthermore, a lack of caring can have devastating consequences such as suffering, or even death due to negligence (Oosthuizen & Devente, 2010). Because caring is such an important aspect of quality care, nurses should maintain…

• The main emphasis of nursing is care. • Caring is necessary for the health, wellness, healing, growth, existence and dealing sickness or demise. • Nursing care practices are directed by the holistic concept of culture care. • The main aim of nursing is to deliver care to individuals during sickness, wellness, and even death. • Curing is not possible in the absence of care. • There are variances in the culture care concepts within different cultures throughout the world. • Each culture has…

because the hospital was very far away from the village where I was born. It is in this hospital that I conceptualized the idea of becoming a nurse, and now I am Registered Nurse working in correctional facility. I gained by my Associate Degree in Nursing from Fresno City College. I am very proud of graduating from Fresno City College not only because it is priced as the first community college in California, but also because it produces the highest number of ADN graduates in California. 2. I…

The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment tool helps to describe the uniqueness of a particular culture to better deliver culturally competent care as a Nurse. The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Model postulates that each individual is culturally unique and should be assessed according to six cultural phenomena: (a) communication, (b) space, (c) social organization, (d) time, (e) environmental control, and (f) biological variations. (2) The faith of Muslims is important to…

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 theories have developed. It is valuable to contemplate the influences of historical leaders and analyze the impact that specific nursing theory has on individual practice, while also reflecting on principles that dictate personal actions. Nursing Agencies…

second opportunity exists to collaborate with the local university’s nursing department as in the hospital the majority of the workforce is Caucasian. In the college of nursing, there is a multicultural workforce. It will be imperative to connect with the college of nursing’s professors to request their input and knowledge regarding the educational need. These knowledgeable professors may be able to help in the educating of the nursing workforce at the hospital.…

complicated questions and seek various ways of thinking rather than to just answer a question outright (Butts & Rich, 2015, p. 79). While all nursing theories have common metaparadigm concepts which are patients or human beings, nurse, health, and environment, there are other concepts pertinent to everyday nursing practice (Butts & Rich, 2015, p. 89). The nursing component requires two additional and vital practice…

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. The National Council…

Strategies for Nurses to implement Lowe and Archibald (2009) stated in their article, Cultural Diversity: The Intention of Nursing, that the overall purpose of nursing was seen as a discipline that grips, assimilates, and pervades the diversity of a cultural which has always been challenged and assessed. Variations in the ethnic and cultural arrangement of the US population, according to Lowe and Archibald (2009) continuously produces challenges for nurses on a daily basis, which often time…