Transcultural Care

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The papers explains that the goal of transcultural care is to provide culturally congruent care which agrees with cultural beliefs, customs and traditions. The paper discusses the Sunrise enabler that illustrates diverse influencers of health, all of which interact. The paper focuses on two of those cultural factors: religious and philosophical and cultural values and applies these factors to two cultures, Mexican-American and Arab-American. The paper stresses that transcultural nursing is the only means by which care providers can effectively care for patients from diverse cultures.

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"Use of the Sunrise Enabler begins with the worldview. "Worldview refers to the way people tend to look out upon their world or their universe to form a picture or value stance about life or the world around them" (Leininger & McFarland, 2006, p. 25). Worldview strongly influences care and health decisions, and also guides decisions and behavior related to wellbeing. Cultural outlooks are in fact cultural worldviews or ways of seeing the world. They are not going to be changed by logical argument. When providing care, it is very important that the nurse "focus on the client's beliefs, values, needs and lifeways" (Leininger, 2001, p. 21). The focus needs to always be on those beliefs, values and ways of coping with illness, not on one's own ideas. In many cultures, illness is seen as having cultural and religious causes. The decisions that patients and families make can be very different from what the nurse or other care providers would recommend."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Leininger, M. & McFarland, M. (2006). Culture care, diversity, and universality. Toronto: Jones & Bartlett.
• Leininger, M. (2001). A mini journey into transcultural nursing with its founder. Nebraska Nurse, 34 (2), 16-23.

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