Leininger's Explanatory Model Of Transcultural Nursing

Cultural knowledge is very important for nurses to deal with the patients. It strengthens nurse’s commitment to nursing based on nurse-patient relationship and highlighting the whole person rather than viewing the patient as a set of symptom or illness. To provide optimal and holistic care for all patient’s, culturally competent care is an important ingredient to achieve quality care and health outcomes. Transcultural nursing provide care that is consistent with cultural values, beliefs and practices- culturally specific care(Leininger,1984). As an advanced practice nurse, I would assess patients explanatory model for his or her own health status (how the patient or individual understands the illness) to avoid stereotyping and underestimate
As per Leininger (1985), nursing uses three modes of action to provide care: culture care preservation, culture care accommodation and culture care reconstructing. Nursing care through these three modes of action can best fits with each patient’s culture and thus reduce culture stress and conflict between the patient and the healthcare provider. Leininger’s sunrise model (1991) was evolved to give a holistic and comprehensive conceptual frame to the Theory of Cultural Care diversity and Universality (Leininger, 1995, 1997a). It is created to locate differences and similarities in global diversities. Leininger model emphasize on culture care which include values and beliefs that assist a person or an individual to maintain wellbeing, improve health condition or face death or disability. Also, this model helps us to realize whether cultural mismatch occurred between patient and the nurse and an attempt can be made to retrieve from the mistake to reduce the incidence of mistrust and noncompliance. For instance, health care provider wants to keep the schedule on a day which is a religious holiday for a Hindu patient which caused cultural pain due to lack of awareness, sensitivity and understanding in cultural values and
The same situation prevails among the pupil in all over the places. To bring awareness and change in cultural disparities there are many organizations and institutions (AAN) working together to find the ways through education, research, investigation, conferences to bridge cultural or religious differences in all over the country by applying usable knowledge that moves beyond dialogue to action. One of the Organization called Tanenbaum was founded in 1992 by Georgette Bennett is a non-profit Organization that works to promote mutual respect and understanding and fight religious bias in workplaces, schools and healthcare settings. The purpose of this organization is to build an environment in which people are not harassed or bullied in terms of religious identity, rather respected and widely accepted. Tanenbaum works with hospitals, medical and nursing schools to spread religious and cultural competencies to better understand the needs of the patient’s which lead to better communication and trust for better health outcomes. Tanenbaum also provides resources to other companies to incorporate practices to work in religiously diverse environments especially in globalized economy. The goal is to eliminate culturally discordant care from the