Transcultural nursing
Transcultural Nursing (pronunciation: trans-kul-chur-al nur-sing) is a distinct field of nursing that focuses on global cultures and comparative cultural caring, health, and nursing phenomena.
Etymology
The term "Transcultural Nursing" was coined by Madeleine Leininger, a nurse anthropologist, in the 1950s. The prefix "trans-" is derived from Latin, meaning "across" or "beyond", and "cultural" pertains to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society. Thus, "Transcultural Nursing" refers to the practice of nursing that extends beyond cultural boundaries.
Definition
Transcultural Nursing is defined as a formal area of study and practice that focuses on the comparison of cultures in relation to nursing and health-illness caring practices, beliefs, and values with the goal to provide meaningful and efficient nursing care services to people according to their cultural values and health-illness context.
Related Terms
- Cultural Competence: The ability of healthcare providers to provide care to people with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors, including the ability to adapt delivery of care to meet the needs of these patients.
- Cultural Sensitivity: Being aware that cultural differences and similarities exist and have an effect on values, learning, and behavior.
- Cultural Assessment: A systematic appraisal or examination of individuals, groups, and communities as to their cultural beliefs, values, and practices to determine explicit needs and intervention practices within the cultural context of the people being evaluated.
Principles
Transcultural Nursing is guided by several principles, including:
- The care must be culturally congruent, safe, and meaningful.
- Care is a universal phenomenon, but the expressions, processes, and patterns vary among cultures.
- Culture care values, beliefs, and practices are influenced by and tend to be embedded in the world view, language, religious (or spiritual), kinship (or social), political (or legal), economic, educational, technological, and ethnohistorical factors of a designated culture.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Transcultural nursing
- Wikipedia's article - Transcultural nursing
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