Transcultural Nursing Theory

Dr. Madeleine Leininger was a well known educator, theorist, researcher and developed the concept of transcultural nursing. She is renowned for her research on transcultural nursing which is the concept of how to effectively care for patients of different cultures and ethnic backgrounds. During the 1950's, M. Leininger worked in a child guidance home, where she experienced, what was described the critical and urgent need to prepare nurses to care for people of diverse cultures. This was the stepping stone to the start of her research. In her article "The Evolution of Transcultural Nursing with Breakthroughs to Discipline Status" M. Leininger explains how to implement transcultural nursing theory in a sunrise model. The sunrise symbolizes the

The two halves together form a full sun, which represents the universe that nurses must consider to appreciate human care and health. The nursing subsystem can act as a bridge between the folk and the personal health systems through the three types of nursing care actions: culture care preservation, cultural care accommodation, and cultural care repatterning." Cultural care preservation refers to nursing care activities that help people of particular cultures to retain and use core culture care values related to healthcare concerns and conditions. Cultural care accommodation refers to creative nursing actions that help people of a particular culture adapt to with others in the healthcare community in an effort to attain the shared gal of an optimal health outcome for the client. Cultural care repatterning refers to the therapeutic actions taken by culturally competent nurse or family, these actions assist a client to modify personal health behaviors towards beneficial outcomes while respecting the clients cultural

Leininger's research article on transcultural nursing theory, I developed a better understanding of what transcultural nursing is and how this theory is used when caring for patients. Before reading this article, I had an idea of what the theory was, but I had no idea how detailed it was and the reasoning behind the theory. After reading, I gained a better understanding of the transcultural nursing theory. The transcultural nursing is the study of cultural to understand similarities and differences across human groups. It is a key concept in providing quality care to patients