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Study Resource Test Bank - Practice-Ready Answer Guide transcultural nursing - answer - *The blending of nursing and anthropology into an area of specialization within the discipline of nursing *Conceptualized by Dr. Leininger *A formal area of study that uses the concepts of culture and caring * Influences a person's definition of health and illness * Oftentimes connotes a person's racial or ethnic background. Culture also encompasses: Socioeconomic status, Ability or disability, Sexual orientation, Age, Occupation or profession transcultural nursing (TCN) - answer - * Is nursing specialty focused on the comparative study and analysis of cultures and subcultures * It examines these groups with respects to their: Caring behavior, Nursing care, Health-illness values and beliefs, and Pattern of behavior TCN goals - answer - * Is to develop a scientific and humanistic body of knowledge in order to provide nursing care that is both CULTURE SPECIFIC and CULTURE UNIVERSAL Culture Specific - answer - * Particular values, beliefs, and patterns of behavior that tend to be special or unique to a group and that do not tend to be shared with members of other cultures Culture Universal - answer - * The commonly shared values, norms of behavior, and life patterns that are similarly held among cultures about human behavior and lifestyles Anthropology - answer - * The study of humans including their: Origins, Behavior, Social relationships, Physical and mental characteristics, Customs, Development through time and in all places in the world Culture( as defined by Leininger) - answer - * The "learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and life ways of a particular group of people that guide thinking, decisions, and actions in a patterned way" Culture is the blueprint - answer - * That provides the broadest and most comprehensive means to know, explain, and predict people's life ways over time and in different geographic locations Ethnicity - answer - * The perception of oneself and a sense of belonging to a particular ethnic group or groups. It can also mean feeling that one does not belong to any group because of multi ethnicity. * Currently five classifications; however, some people may identify with more than one ethnicity/race Race - answer - * Refers to a group of people who share such genetically transmitted traits as skin, color, hair, texture, and eye shape or color * Races are arbitrary classifications that lack definition clarity; all cultures have their own ways of categorizing or classifying their members Historical and Theoretical Foundations of TCN - answer - * Dr. Madeleine M. Leininger, nurse anthropologist * Initial conception in the 1950's * Formal creation as a specialty and new discipline within the profession in the 's * Nurse scholars have generated a substantial and important body of theoretical, research and evidence-based knowledge in TCN, which is ongoing Leininger's Contribution to TCN - answer - * Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality: focuses on describing, explaining, and predicting nursing similarities and differences focused primarily on human care and caring in human cultures * Sunrise Enabler: visual representation of the concepts of her theory. Based on the concept of cultural care that guides nursing judgement and activities to provide culturally congruent care * Established the Transcultural Nursing Society (TCNS) *TCNS Newsletter *Created the Journal of Transcultural Nursing (JTN) and served as founding editor * Established the first master's and doctoral programs in nursing with a theoretical and research focus in TCN * Created a new qualitative research method called enthnonursing research to investigate phenomena of interest in TCN Advancements in Transcultural Nursing - answer - * Expanded models by nursing scholars: Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model * Purnell Model for Cultural Competence * Campinha-Bacote Model of Cultural Competence in