Ethnocultural Nursing

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This paper explains that Leining's Sunrise Model of trans-cultural patient assessment/nursing research suggests that a patient's familiarity with technology, including medical technology, helps in understanding of other elements of their background and their expectations of hospital care. The author provides various examples, along with the nurse's response. The paper relates that technological familiarity helps to locate patient's personal culture and to dictate how the nurse should respond.

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"Madeleine Leininger's Sunrise Model for ethnocultural nursing evolved between 1955 and 1985, in response to her realization of a broad range of factors shaping the worldviews of patients, groups and communities, that affected their ideas of health, illness, health care, and their expectations of medical professionals. (2002b) The model is useful in that is encourages nurses to approach patients with several broad determinants in mind, according to their ethnicity, but alert, too, to several particular factors that shape these ideas. Technology, and familiarity with it, is one of several influencing factors important in North American medical settings to feature much technology in practice, as North American patients grow more ethnically diverse."

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