culture and nursing nursing school china medical university li xiaohan
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Culture and Nursing
Nursing School China Medical University
Li Xiaohan
Unit1: Introduction of culture
Unit2: Culture and nursing
Introduction of culture
1. Culture
2. Culture shock
Culture
(1) Concept
(2) Model
(3) Characteristics
(4) Classification
(5) Function
Concept of culture
1) Definition of culture
2) Aspect of culture
Definition of culture
Culture is a summation of survival
style formed in some given group
or social life and possessed by their
members.
Three aspects
(1) Matter culture
(2) Spiritual culture
(3) Manner culture
Culture model
1) Definition
2) Content
Definition
Culture model is a special for
m and structure that is a com
bination of all culture conten
ts in a society
Contents
1) Symbol
2) Matter particularity
3) Art
4) Science
5) Convention
6) Family and social system
7) Manner
8) Government
9) War
Characteristics of culture
(1)Supernatural and beyond individual
(2)Zone and beyond zone
(3)Era and beyond era
(4)Symbolization and transfer
Classification of culture
(1) Hard culture
(2) Soft culture
Function of culture
a) To be a indication of dividing
line among societies or
nationalities
b) To make a society have
behavioral criterions
(3) To make social solidarity
(unity) have a important
foundation
(4) To shape social human
beings
Culture shock(1) Definition
(2) Reasons
(3) Stages
(4) Manifestations
(5) Influencing factors
(6)Prevention
Definition
Culture shock is a confusion in thinking
and syndrome of mental tension in
psychological aspect produced by a
person who lives in a cultural
environment and firstly arrives in an
another cultural environment.
Reasons
Main element:
A person arrives in a strange
environment from a familiar
environment suddenly
(1) Obstacle on communication
(2) Difference on activities of
daily life
(1) Isolation
(2) Customs
(3) Attitudes and beliefs
Stages
(1) Exciting stage
(2) Consciousness stage
(3) Changing stage
(4) Acceptance stage
Manifestation
(1) Anxiety
(2) Fear
(3) Depression
(4) Desperation
Influencing factors
(1) Individual’s heath status
(2) Age
(3) Pre-experiences in adapting life changing
Prevention
(1)To be familiar with the culture model in a new environment ahead
(2)To contact with the culture model actively in a new cultural environment
Prevention
(3) To look for (search) powerful
support systems:
normal supportive systems
informal supportive systems
Culture and nursing
1. The influence of cultural background upon nursing
2. Leininger’s Transcultural nursing theory
3. The principles of cultural nursing
4. The strategies of cultural nursing
The influence of cultural background upon nursing
(1) Cultural background influences
the reasons of producing diseases. value concept, attitude or life style in culture may influence the occurrence of some diseases
(2) Cultural background influences patients’ reaction to diseases.
1) Gender 2) Educational background 3) Family’s support
(3) Cultural background influences patients’ manner of seeing a physician
1) Religious conception
2) Economic condition
(4) Culture influences a person’s cognition to death
1) Chinese traditional culture of
emotional state on death
2) Chinese traditional behavioral
culture on death
Leininger’s Transcultural nursing theory
(1) The formation of the theory
(2) Basic content of the theory
(3) Goal of the theory
Basic content of the theory
(1) Cultural care is a necessary qualification
to the survival of human being
(2) The nationalities with different culture
in the world have the universality
(commonness) and speciality of culture
care.
(3) Culture care is divided into general care
and professional care.
Goal of the theory
To provide the nursing care
corresponding to culture for
the health of individual,
family and colony.
The principles of cultural nursing
(1)principle of comprehension
(2)principle of education
(3) principle of mobilization
(4) Principle of giving suggestions
(5)Principle of wholeness
Strategies of cultural nursing
(1)The nursing strategies of meeting patients’ cultural needs
(2)The nursing strategies that help patients to adapt hospital’s cultural environment.
Strategies of meeting patients’ cultural needs
1)To understand patients’ behavior of seeing a physician
2)To identify patients’ reaction to disease.
3) To establish a nurse-patient relationship adapted to cultural phenomena
strategies that help patients to adapt hospital’s cultural
environment
1) To help patients to be familiar with the environment of hospital as soon as possible
2) To establish a good relationship between nurse and patient.
3) To respect patients’ habits and customs
a. Diet
b. Special taboo
c. National convention
4) To seek supportive system
5) To pay attention to the diversity on value conception
6) To follow the principles of cultural nursing