Transcultural Nursing Research Paper
Working with a diverse group of patients is a privilege and we must be able to accept the challenge as nurses. Madeleine Leininger discovered many cultural differences between patients and nurses more than 60 years ago (Andrews, M. & Boyle, J., 2016). In this paper I’m going to discuss several reasons why transcultural nursing is a necessary specialty according to Madeleine. I will then define what cultural diversity means to me and how its relationship relates to the field of nursing. To finish, I will explain how I provide culturally sensitive care to my patients.
In our textbook, Madeleine describes eight reasons why transcultural nursing is needed. She begins to explain that transcultural nursing is important because there is been an “increase in the migration of people within and in between countries worldwide. (Andrews, M. & Boyle, J., 2016). America is known as a melting pot and we have individuals that originate from several different countries and continents. Working with the public …show more content…
When immigrants begin to flock to this country in the 1980s they brought along many different religions and cultures. They continued to practice these cultures and sometimes intermingled other cultures. To this day we still have new cultures that arrived to America frequently. “Of the nearly 3 million RNs residing in the United States, approximately 16.8 percent have been identified as belonging to racial and or ethnic minority groups” (Murray, Pole, Ciatlo, & Home, 2016). Among our workforce there is a great deal of cultural diversity, just as there is a great deal of cultural diversity in America. Cultural diversity means there are several different cultures working and living among each other. Nurses take care of these people on a regular basis, it is not unheard of to have five different patients from different cultures in the same day. We must be able to identify these and provide the best appropriate care
In our textbook, Madeleine describes eight reasons why transcultural nursing is needed. She begins to explain that transcultural nursing is important because there is been an “increase in the migration of people within and in between countries worldwide. (Andrews, M. & Boyle, J., 2016). America is known as a melting pot and we have individuals that originate from several different countries and continents. Working with the public …show more content…
When immigrants begin to flock to this country in the 1980s they brought along many different religions and cultures. They continued to practice these cultures and sometimes intermingled other cultures. To this day we still have new cultures that arrived to America frequently. “Of the nearly 3 million RNs residing in the United States, approximately 16.8 percent have been identified as belonging to racial and or ethnic minority groups” (Murray, Pole, Ciatlo, & Home, 2016). Among our workforce there is a great deal of cultural diversity, just as there is a great deal of cultural diversity in America. Cultural diversity means there are several different cultures working and living among each other. Nurses take care of these people on a regular basis, it is not unheard of to have five different patients from different cultures in the same day. We must be able to identify these and provide the best appropriate care