NSG THEORY
What insight did you take away from the article?
The key insights that I take away from the article are that today, nurses have shifted from mind-body nursing to transcultural nursing that entails the use of multiple factors such as religious, language, economic, beliefs, and others (Fawcett, 2002). Note that patients come from different backgrounds and therefore nurses should have a transcultural understanding to understand patient's cultural needs. I have also learned that transcultural nursing is connected to a holistic-centered perspective and this means that nurses put many factors into consideration to solve physical and mental problems (Fawcett, 2002). Thus, transcultural nursing expands nurses knowledge, and allow them to understand social, cultural, and other factors, and hence offer culturally based care.
What did you learn about Madeleine Leininger?
From the interview, I have learned that Madeleine value diversity and she is ready to transform nursing practice to ensure that transcultural nursing practices are integrated into the healthcare setting. While he was working in a child guidance home as a clinical specialist, she realized that children were from different cultures and they behaved differently in terms of how they ate, talked, dressed, among other behaviors (Fawcett, 2002). However, there was no culturally based care or in other cultural diversity was not valued. In the interview, Madeleine shows that that she supports culturally based care. She believes that professional care entails understanding the needs of diverse cultures and meeting their needs (Fawcett, 2002). I have learned that Madeleine is devoted to ensure that by 2020, nurses will accept the reality that nursing is a transcultural based profession.
Do you share any of Leininger′s views, perspectives or ideas?
The Leininger's idea that I would like to share is that transcultural nursing is rewarding. This is because nurses are not relying on mind-body perspective but they have gained new ways or rather new thinking and practices that have promoted healing (health) (Fawcett, 2002). I agree that transcultural nursing is improving the client's well-being in that nurses are providing quality care with the help of cultural knowledge.
Were there any ideas, views or perspectives that you disagreed with?
I disagree with Leininger's ideas that nurses lack cultural and care knowledge. I believe that you cannot work as a nurse if you do not have care knowledge. Therefore, before nurses engage in nursing practices, they know what care is and know how to do care. I believe that in nursing, basic knowledge is based on caring (Fawcett, 2002). I think instead of using the term 'care', Leininger should provide care knowledge or the phenomenon of care.
How might you use these ideas from the interview in your practice?
I would use the ideas from the interview by accepting diversity between groups of people. In a healthcare community, I would adapt to different cultures and respect others' cultural values (Fawcett, 2002). I would first evaluate my own beliefs and accept others different beliefs and this method will allow me to take a holistic approach toward offering patient-centered care.
If you were interviewing Madeleine Leininger what would you ask her?
If I were interviewing Madeleine, the question that I would ask her is that “will the transcultural nursing research go beyond the nursing discipline to include an interdisciplinary approach to guide the research and practice?”
References
Fawcett, J. (2002). The Nurse Theorists: 21st-Century Updates—Madeleine M.
Leininger. Nursing science quarterly, 15(2), 131-136.
