DOMINGO, CLAIR P.
BSN 4-1
TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
1. Discuss briefly what is Ethno Nursing Research Model and how it affects Transcultural
Nursing.
Madeleine Leininger , a nurse anthropologist world-renowned as an educator, researcher,
theorist, and the founder of transcultural nursing developed the culture care theory and
ethnonursing research method to study transcultural human care phenomena. The method uses an
open, largely inductive process to document, describe, understand, and interpret peoples’ care
meanings or how they experience and value care and daily lifeways or their cultural practices.
The CCT and ethnonursing research method generate knowledge to help nurses and other
professionals care for people from similar and diverse cultures in an increasingly multicultural .
The ethnonursing researcher acts as a co-participant to discover how people know, experience,
and practice care in their daily lives. Observation of and participation and reflection with
participants throughout the research process allow discovery of people and professional’s values,
beliefs, care practices, and health practices.
The culture care theory asserts that care is the essence of nursing and the dominant, unifying
focus of the discipline, and care influences the health and well-being of people in profound ways
within their environmental contexts. From an anthropologic perspective, Leininger (2006a)
found that care is deeply embedded in peoples’ worldviews, social structures, and values, thus,
making it an elusive phenomenon that is challenging to study. Healthcare providers and other
professionals need substantive knowledge in their disciplines to guide their care decisions and
actions as they move beyond local and national perspectives to a global worldview. Professionals
also need access to the care knowledge of diverse cultures to guide their clinical practices,
teaching, curricular work, consultation, research, and administration.
ETHNO NURSING RESEARCH MODEL
 It is a research method for describing, documenting, and explaining nursing care
phenomena by the study of the beliefs, values, and practices concerning nursing
care that belong to a specific culture, as reflected by the language, beliefs, and
values of the members of that culture.
TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
 The aims of transcultural nursing are to provide sensitive and effective nursing
care to meet the cultural needs of individuals, families and groups, to integrate
transcultural concepts, theories and practices into nursing education, research and
clinical applications, to improve transcultural nursing knowledge.
ETHNO NURSING RESEARCH MODEL AND TRANSCULUTURAL NURSING
 Over the course of several decades , Leininger developed and refined the Theory
of Culture Care Diversity and Universality also known as Culture Care Theory
and the Ethno Nursing Research method or model.
 Ethno Nursing Research Model affects Transcultural Nursing with an aim to
provide a specific or general care that would be culturally congruent, safe and
beneficial to people.
 With the use of Ethno Nursing Research Model it helps every people with
different or similar cultures for their health , well being , healing and to help
people in facing disabilities and death.
IMPORTANCE OF ETHNO NURSING RM AND TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
 Nurse – Researchers use the ethno nursing method or model to tease out historical
insights about healthcare values and practices especially related to generic and
professional care patterns and practices throughout the lifespan.
 Leinigers encouraged researchers using the ethnonursing model to study the
diverse cultures in different domains of inquiry to develop their own additional
enablers related to cultural care theory as needed.
 In developing the culture care theory or the transcultural nursing. Ethnonursing
research model or methods ,Leininger ultimate goal was the discovery of new
knowledge that could assist nurses and other healthcare professionals to deliver
culturally congruent, sensitive and meaningful care to people worldwide.
 FACTS:
Although Leininger is no longer with us , her passion and vision for transcultural
nursing remain ignited as a powerful driving force in transcultural nursing with the help
of student and seasoned researchers using her theory , method and enablers .
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