Emerging Standards Of Care: Practice Of Transcultural Nursing

Emerging Standards of Care Paper
Amanda Warbington
University of Phoenix
NUR 531
June 30, 2014
Instructor Hilda Brito
Emerging Standards of Care Paper
Over fifty years ago, Madeline Leininger was on a mission to advance the practice of transcultural nursing. Times have definitely changed in the last fifty years, and transcultural nursing has become a major focus for the government as well as many nursing organizations. Emerging standards of care regarding culturally competent care, is an important aspect of the health care industry, especially nursing. With the growing population, there is an increasing amount of people that are not native to America. As nurses, it is important to understand and respect a multitude of different
The most influential resources are the work of Dr. Madeline Leininger with the cultural care theory, and Campinha-Bacote’s culturally competent model of care (Leuning, Swiggum, Wiegert, & McCullough-Zander, 2002). These frameworks are taught in nursing schools in order to give future nurses the basic framework for providing competent and holistic cultural care. Although each facility has their own standards of care for employees, there is a universal standard of culturally competent care developed by “the Expert Panel for Global Nursing and Health of the American Academy of Nursing, along with members of the Transcultural Nursing Society” (Transcultural Nursing Society, 2014). The 12 standards, according to Douglas, Rosenkoetter, Pacquiao, Callister, Hattar-Pollara, Lauderdale, Milstead, Nardi, & Purnell (2014), are as follows: social justice, critical reflection, knowledge of cultures, culturally competent practice, cultural competence in healthcare systems and organizations, patient advocacy and empowerment, multicultural workforce, education and training in culturally competent care, cross cultural communication, cross cultural leadership, policy development, and evidenced-based practice and
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