Madeleine Leininger's Cultural Care Diversity and Universality

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Madeleine Leininger's Cultural Care Diversity and Universality

Nurses are in the practice of interacting with client from different cultures and from different field of life.Without considering their status, condition, and age, nurses need to provide them the appropriate cares that patient deserve. Patients need care and the same is the part of the job of nurses.

In healthcare the education of healthand maintenance plays a vital role. There are certain identical challenges present for the success of the health promotion such as the different clients, and their different values, beliefs, and practices. For this cultural knowledge and differences is another task for the nursing profession.

Madeleine Leininger was the first lady who recognized the culture has influenced in relation to nursing. For understanding and developingsuch connection, she spentcouple of yearsto recognize their impacts.Theory of Cultural Diversity and Universality is one of the major step for the betterment of the nursing profession (Andrews & Boyle, 2012).

She gives the new way by defining the Transcultural Nursing need to be focused as the subjective area of practice and studyon proportionalcultural care, beliefs, values, and practicing the nursing profession as per the need of the cultural care of an individual and other group of people. She was the lady who recognizes the nurses are for all the human being regardless of cultural differences and for providing the best care to their client promotes the universal nursing care.

Concept of Theory

Leininger's theory is also refers to the universality and cultural diversity. Since, variation in culture refers to the culture diversity. Nurses need to avoid the stereotyping and have to practice their professional being rational and unbiased. Regardless of differences and other consideration, nurses need to focus on the care giving. On the other hand the cultural universityrefers to relate the common things. These two are the major concepts which lead to the goal of theory.Both differences and similarities would be used as an effective tool for providing the care to the patients(Leininger, 1995).

Incorporating the concepts on universality and cultural diversitygives the recognition culturally congruent care and culture specific.The goal of the theory is to recognize the client's care which he needed for,as per their cultural need and then the practicing in the nursing care. In this way the nursing care would be given to the client. After thatLeininger refers to the decisions, cognitively based assistive, enabling acts, facilitative, supportive, in a way so that nurse would be able to provide beneficial, meaningful, and most important satisfying care by which the health could be recovered. This is the central idea of the Leininger's theory of cultural care.

Taking an effective care of their clients/patients is one of the major tasks for the nurses. Nurses are directly interacting with the client that is why it is necessary to understand and obtained the knowledge of client's customs, values, and beliefsso that the effective care should be provided to the client. Madeleine Leiningerrefers the cultural care as rising ...