Culture and providing culturally sensitive
Patient centered-care provides culturally sensitive care as a vital component. Nurses
must attempt to boost their ability to provide patient-centered care by reflecting on how their
beliefs, cultures and values impact their relationship with patients.it is also a necessity for
nurses to understand how their psychosocial needs and cultural related health needs.
Background concept
The article talks about culture and their sensitivity, how limited control occur on
culturally sensitive communication associated to communication between families, patients
and clinicians.
Development of nursing
Nursing is all about caring for patients, it is achieved by underpinning what they do.
This role defines them as nurses and differentiate them from other profession. their
knowledge is basically what classifies their profession because of unique body knowledge.
with increase accountability nurses explore their growing expectations in their profession
disbelief, neglect those without consequently and merit developing enough knowledge to care
for their patients in a capable manner. Certainly, from experience of practice it shows that
accepted cultural beliefs and practices of nursing in practice is the best role in shaping
disseminated knowledge. Identifying what nursing knowledge is and how their expression is
will help educate nurses by establishing and maintain their profession. Nursing knowledge
can be acquired in numerous different means with the source frequently identifying the
knowledge. They often use biological knowledge such as physiology and social knowledge
such as psychology. Nursing acquire knowledge from mixture of types of knowledge and a
wide range of source making it difficult to define the actual nursing knowledge.
Communication is the main skill nurses use when helping out their patients.it is interpersonal
skill and communication that links practical knowledge and theory. There is a conflict
, between propositional and practical experiential knowledge which is gained through personal
experience. Nursing knowledge informs for practical and theoretical perspectives and should
value knowledge gained from practice. Nursing knowledge is of different type owing to its
terms of things and humor. this kind of knowledge can be difficult to identify. All nurses
must learn critical thinking that will increase the quality and amount of nursing knowledge.
Nursing theories
Transcultural nursing theory attempts to provide congruent nursing care through
facilitative, supportive and cognitively based assistive that is fit to different group of
individuals. Its main focus is nursing care fit for similar or different cultural backgrounds.
The cultural worldview dive deep into knowledge about communities, groups, institutions
and individuals in diverse health care system. This theory provides culturally specific
expressions and meaning about health and care.
Major concepts of the transcultural nursing
Ethonursing
It is the study of nursing values, practices and beliefs as cognitively known and
perceived as known by a designated culture through value system, direct beliefs and
experience.(Leininger,1979).
Transcultural nursing
It focuses on analysis of cultures and comparative study concerning health-illness
caring practices and nursing, values and beliefs to provide better and meaningful nursing
services to their cultural health-illness and values.
Nursing
Defined as scientific profession, learned humanistic that focuses on activities and
human care phenomena to facilitate, support and assist support individual maintain their well-
being in beneficial ways.
Patient centered-care provides culturally sensitive care as a vital component. Nurses
must attempt to boost their ability to provide patient-centered care by reflecting on how their
beliefs, cultures and values impact their relationship with patients.it is also a necessity for
nurses to understand how their psychosocial needs and cultural related health needs.
Background concept
The article talks about culture and their sensitivity, how limited control occur on
culturally sensitive communication associated to communication between families, patients
and clinicians.
Development of nursing
Nursing is all about caring for patients, it is achieved by underpinning what they do.
This role defines them as nurses and differentiate them from other profession. their
knowledge is basically what classifies their profession because of unique body knowledge.
with increase accountability nurses explore their growing expectations in their profession
disbelief, neglect those without consequently and merit developing enough knowledge to care
for their patients in a capable manner. Certainly, from experience of practice it shows that
accepted cultural beliefs and practices of nursing in practice is the best role in shaping
disseminated knowledge. Identifying what nursing knowledge is and how their expression is
will help educate nurses by establishing and maintain their profession. Nursing knowledge
can be acquired in numerous different means with the source frequently identifying the
knowledge. They often use biological knowledge such as physiology and social knowledge
such as psychology. Nursing acquire knowledge from mixture of types of knowledge and a
wide range of source making it difficult to define the actual nursing knowledge.
Communication is the main skill nurses use when helping out their patients.it is interpersonal
skill and communication that links practical knowledge and theory. There is a conflict
, between propositional and practical experiential knowledge which is gained through personal
experience. Nursing knowledge informs for practical and theoretical perspectives and should
value knowledge gained from practice. Nursing knowledge is of different type owing to its
terms of things and humor. this kind of knowledge can be difficult to identify. All nurses
must learn critical thinking that will increase the quality and amount of nursing knowledge.
Nursing theories
Transcultural nursing theory attempts to provide congruent nursing care through
facilitative, supportive and cognitively based assistive that is fit to different group of
individuals. Its main focus is nursing care fit for similar or different cultural backgrounds.
The cultural worldview dive deep into knowledge about communities, groups, institutions
and individuals in diverse health care system. This theory provides culturally specific
expressions and meaning about health and care.
Major concepts of the transcultural nursing
Ethonursing
It is the study of nursing values, practices and beliefs as cognitively known and
perceived as known by a designated culture through value system, direct beliefs and
experience.(Leininger,1979).
Transcultural nursing
It focuses on analysis of cultures and comparative study concerning health-illness
caring practices and nursing, values and beliefs to provide better and meaningful nursing
services to their cultural health-illness and values.
Nursing
Defined as scientific profession, learned humanistic that focuses on activities and
human care phenomena to facilitate, support and assist support individual maintain their well-
being in beneficial ways.
