Madeleine Leininger Test Questions – Flashcards

1. Only theory to focus on holistic and comprehensive culture care 2. Only theory that focuses on discovering factors influencing human care; worldview, social structure, language, generic and professional care, ethnohistory and environment

A substantive area of study ; practice focused on comparative cultural care (caring) values, beliefs, and practice of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures into health care treatments

-Providing culture-specific and universal nursing care practices in promoting health and well being -Help people face unfavorable human conditions, illness, or death in culturally meaningful ways

reveals the common nature of human beings

reveals the variability and unique features of a person

1. Cultural care preservation 2. Cultural care accommodation/negotiation 3. Culture care repatterning/restructuring

Assisstive, supportive, Facilitative or enabling professional actions/decisions that help people of a specific culture maintain meaningful care values and life ways for their well-being, to recover from illness or deal with a handicap or death.

actions/decisions that help people of a specific culture or subculture adapt to or negotiate with others for meaningful, beneficial, and congruent heath outcomes

actions/decisions that help patients reorder, change or modify their life ways for new, different, and beneficial health out comes

"an enabler" --> essential components of the theory of culture care diversity and universality; a visual guide for exploration of cultures

Human being, family, group,community or institution

Totality of an event, situation, or experience that gives meaning to human expressions, interpretations, and social interactions in physical, ecological, sociopolitical, and/or cultural settings

A state of well being that is culturally defined, valued, and practiced

Activities directed toward assisting, supporting

the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group.

the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation, or the state of being so adapted:

the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group

the process whereby individuals learn their group's culture, through experience, observation, and instruction.

1. One of the oldest theories in nursing (mid 1950s) 2. Only theory to focus on the close interrelationships of culture and care on well being, health, illness and death 3. Only theory focused on comparative culture 4. Most holistic and multidimensional theory 5. focused on discovering global cultural diversities and care universalities 6. First Nursing theory with a specifically designed research method to fit in theory