Leininger's Theory Of Cultural Care

The United States of America, in general, has a very interesting and mixed population, with different cultures. Health care providers in the Unites States and the rest of the world gain more understanding of the necessity to develop a cultural competency in the patient care. Miami, the city where I live involve a rich multicultural people from several parts of the world. Nurses all the time are dealing with those rich cultures.
The Humanistic disciplines support the theory of cultural care diversity and the universality created by Leininger. This principal objective is to serve individuals, families, communities, and the society in general. The transcultural view supports this theory of caring. Leininger established the theory of culture
Nurses have to think that as human, we can never be separate from your natural attachments to our origin, heritage, language, and customs. Also as a nurse, we have to very active and knowledgeable about the patient culture and the factors that are influencing their cultures.
Just to mention an example. I had an experience with a 44 years old man from Cuban. He was diagnostic with brain cancer. Even he was awake, alert, and oriented times three, the family does not allow to inform the patient his diagnosis and discuss with him about prognosis and treatment.
In cases like that, is where the theory of Leininger came to our attention. We have to focus our care trying to accommodate their family and patient’s cultures and believe, instead to impose our nursing opinions. The nurse in this particular scenario has to take into consideration that those behaviors are very typical of the Cuban families. For Cuban people the family is a crucial entity and the family is involved is all making decisions process. Before the patient takes any decision, usually has to consult with the rest of the family. To provide a better care to the patient is crucial to respect their belief and culture. When the nurse asks a patient about if he wants to discussion his plan of care including his diagnosis and test results, the own patient refer us to discuss his medical matters
My hospital was implementing for each admission, as part of the nursing initial assessment complete a card where the patient and family can express their cultural and spiritual need. Such as food preference, some family visitors, dressing codes or some religion believes. Leininger’s theory is to provide care measures that are in harmony with and individual or group’s cultural beliefs, practices, and values (Garmon, 2011).

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