Definitions
This is the broadest, most comprehensive, holistic and universal feature of human beings
What is this theorist's definition of culture?
This refers to those assistive, supporting, facilitative, or enabling professional acts or decisions that help cultures to retain, preserve or maintain beneficial care beliefs and values or to face handicaps and death.
What is culture care preservation and/or maintenance?
This refers to the totality of an event, situation, or particular experience(s) that gives meaning to people's expressions, interpretations, and social interactions within particular physical, ecological, spiritual, sociopolitical and technologic factors in cultural settings.
What is an environmental context?
These are the four major theoretical foundations used by Leininger:
1: Culture care, while diverse, has shared commonalities and some universal attributes
2: Emic and etic factors greatly influence health and illness outcomes.
3: Worldview, ethnohistory, environmental context and other factors are critical influencers of cultural care patterns.
4: Three major actions can lead to providing culturally competent care: a) preservation; b) accommodation; and c) repatterning.
What are the four major tenets of Culture Care Theory?
This enabler is used as a major guide throughout the study to explore comprehensive and multiple influences on care and culture.
What is the Sunrise Enabler?
This is the action mode to help people of diverse cultures.
What is "caring" according to Leininger?
This refers to those assistive, accommodating, facilitative, or enabling creative provider care actions or decisions that help cultures adapt to or negotiate with others for culturally congruent, safe and effective care for their health, wellbeing, or to deal with illness or dying.
What is culture care accommodation and/or negotiation?
This refers to the way people tend to look out upon their world or their universe to form a picture or value stance about life or the world around them.
What is worldview?
These are some of the assumed givens (this list is abbreviated):
1: Care is the essence and the central dominant, distinct, and unifying focus of nursing.
2: Humanistic and scientific care is essential for human growth, wellbeing, health, survival, and to face death and disability.
3: Caring is essential to curing or healing, for there can be no curing without caring.
What are the theoretical assumptions of Culture Care Theory?
This enabler guides the researcher to pursue focused observations of the informant(s) in their familiar and natural living or working environments.
What is the Observation/Participation/Reflection Enabler?
This is the phenomenon to be understood and to guide actions and decisions.
What is "care" according to Leininger?
This refers to those assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling professional actions and mutual decisions that would help people to reorder, change, modify or restructure their lifeways and institutions for better (or beneficial) health care patterns, practices or outcomes.
What is culture care repatterning and/or restructuring?
This refers to culturally-based care knowledge, acts and decisions used in sensitive and knowledgeable ways to appropriately and meaningfully fit the cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways of clients for their health and wellbeing, or to prevent illness, disability or death.
What is culturally congruent care?
This is a qualitative nursing research method focused on naturalistic, open discovery, and largely inductive (emic) modes to document, describe, explain, and interpret informants' worldview, meanings, symbols, and life experiences as they bear on actual or potential nursing care phenomena.
What is the ethnonursing method?
This is each researcher's enabler that covers every aspect (words or ideas) and is focused primarily on the researcher's major hunches and general interests about care and culture.
What is the Domain of Inquiry (DOI) Enabler?
This research method focuses on the way to systematically and rigorously discover the domain of inquiry (DOI) of culture care.
What is the ethnonursing method?
This construct refers to the local, indigenous, or insider's cultural knowledge and view of specific phenomena.
What is emic care?
This refers to the differences or variabilities among human beings with respect to culture care meanings, patterns, values, lifeways, symbols or other features related to providing beneficial care to clients of a designated culture.
What is care diversity?
Madeleine Leininger used her philosophy of life, her extensive professional nursing experiences, anthropological, diverse intellectual scholarly interests, and spiritual insights and beliefs that were reflected upon and used as key components in the development of this theory.
What are the foundations of Culture Care Theory?
This enabler has been a powerful means for self-disclosure, self-reflection and assessment to guide the researcher while working with informants and is used from the beginning of the research until the end.
What is the Stranger to Trusted-Friend Enabler?
These are recognized as major influences upon human expressions related to health, illness, wellbeing, or to face death and/or disability.
What is culturally based nursing care?
This construct refers to the outsider's or stranger's views and often health professional views and institutional knowledge of phenomena.
What is etic care?
This refers to the commonly shared or similar culture care phenomena features of human beings or a group with recurrent meanings, patterns, values, lifeways, or symbols that serve as a guide for caregivers to provide assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling people's care for healthy outcomes.
What is culture care universality?
Leininger's Culture Care Theory is most-often used as a theoretical framework for this type of Nursing Research?
What is Qualitative Nursing Research?
This enabler is tasked to identify the extent to which informants are more traditionally or non-traditionally oriented to their culture.
What is the Acculturation Enabler?