Gran Torino starring Clint Eastwood was about a man’s struggle in adapting to the changes in his environment when confronted by unfamiliar exposure to cultural differences. The film was chosen because it told a story about one’s struggle with traditional practice‚ cultural diversity‚ gender roles‚ and the acceptance of others. In terms of culture‚ there was an abundance of traditional practices related to the Hmong community. The screenplay was written by Nick Schenk and the movie was filmed in
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Madeleine Leininger ’s Cultural Theory Madeleine Leininger founded transcultural-nursing care. She is one of the very first nurse anthropologists that recognized care and culture as two major significant phenomena in nursing (Leininger.2002). Care according to Leininger’s concepts has different meaning in different cultures but in general‚ care refers to assistive or supportive behaviors that improve an individual’s condition (Leininger.2002). According to Madeleine Leininger‚ care is essential
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care for culturally diverse patients‚ transcultural care has become an important aspect of health care. Nowadays the goal of the medical system is to provide optimal and holistic care for all patients‚ to be culturally competent is an ingredient in order to accomplish quality care and health outcomes. The need for clinicians to become more sensitive to cultural differences and gain an understanding of transcultural concepts has been repeatedly stressed by Leininger (1988) and is the aim of this piece
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health care sector. Leininger (1993) speaks of this in her article “Towards conceptualization of transcultural health care systems: Concepts and model”. She states that the relevancy of transcultural health as a field of study and practice will increase as a consequence of sociocultural and economic changes‚ but also because of a growth in transportation‚ communication and technology. As a result of this‚ it will be more necessary to have health personnel with transcultural competence. When studying
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Leininger’s Transcultural Care Model - Assumptions 1 Care is the essence of nursing in a distinct‚ dominant‚ central‚ and unifying focus. 2 Care (caring) is essential for well being‚ health‚ growth‚ survival‚ and to face handicaps or death. 3 Culturally based care is the broadest holistic means to know‚ explain‚ interpret‚ and predict nursing care phenomena and to guide nursing decisions and actions. 4 Nursing is a transcultural humanistic and scientific care discipline and profession with
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When reviewing nursing theories there is one common word that is expressed and that word is caring. Nursing theorists across the time have implemented caring as part of their theories. There are two nursing theorists that I feel epitomize the word caring and make that simple but powerful word the center of their theories‚ Madeleine Leininger and Jean Watson. Madeleine Leininger Theory of Culture Care Definition and Explanation Madeleine Leininger stated that the‚ “ theory of culture care provides
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frameworks‚ theory and paradigms. In order to understand nursing science‚ I will discuss the historical development and explain the relationship between nursing profession and nursing science. Also‚ I will discuss how other disciplines can influence nursing science. This will help understand how theoretical thinking has evolved. Theory development and theory thinking was first intiated by Florence Nightingale. She presented the first nursing theory‚ the environmental theory. Her theory focused on
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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
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Grand and Mid Range Theories Nursing theories are organized‚ patterned or systemic approaches to provide guidelines for professional nursing practice. Theories “consists of sets of interconnected propositions designed to describe‚ explain and practice an event or phenomenon” (Lortenz p. 39). Chinn & Krammer (1991) discuss a theory as a systemic abstraction of reality intended to serve some purpose. The continuum of theories range greatly from grand theories at one end‚ theories that focus on practice
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Running head: NURSING AS CARING 1 Boykin and Schoenhofer: Theory of Nursing as Caring NURSING AS CARING 2 Introduction The theory of Nursing as Caring was developed by Anne Boykin and Sarvina Schoenhofer. In the late 1980’s‚ the two were involved in research involving elements of caring and the practical implications of caring elements when they discovered there was little to no research or literature in this
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