Transcultural Nursing and Globalization: History
and Impact Facts
Transcultural Nursing: Essential Knowledge Dimensions (Part 1) Social developers use the term culture to refer to the sum of all material and spiritual values that have been created and passed on to future generations and the tools for creating and transmitting these values. It also illustrates the extent to which man has authority over the natural and social environments in which he lives, as well as the amount to which he controls the two.
Having a culture that differs from one community to another, and which is therefore experienced differently by everyone, affects how individuals perceive phenomena such as health, illness, happiness, and sadness and how they experience them. It is important to recognize, value, and practice cultural recognition, value, and practice when caring for the health, whose nature and meaning vary from culture to culture. Nurses play an integral role in health care, and cultural factors may affect how nurses perform their duties. Taking the patient’s cultural values, beliefs, and practices into account are integral to providing holistic nursing care to a patient. A nurse must respect cultural values and lifestyles and be compassionate and humane in providing care for her patients. In the current economic climate, individuals need nursing care that is both affordable and acceptable based on current economic conditions. As part of the care process, it is beneficial to recognize and understand the cultural practices of the target communities and the barriers to providing quality health care to these communities. There is an urgent need for nurses in multicultural societies to explore new ways of providing culturally sensitive care, to be aware of how culture impacts the
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definition of health illness, and to build bridges between the care process and the needs of individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. (Bayram Değer, 2017).
There is an utmost need for nursing professionals to be adaptable to deal with cultural diversity, as this issue can damage the excellence of the care they provide to their patients. During the delivery of care, nurses are required to understand diverse cultures, which is why nursing transcultural models provide nurses with the foundation to do so. In nursing practice around the world, these models are continuously being developed as they guide the training of nurses everywhere (Albougami et al. 2016).
1. Transcultural Nursing and Globalization: History and Impact Facts Cultures can be defined as collections of material and spiritual values created through the process of social development as well as a collection of tools used to create, pass down, and demonstrate the extent to which a man has exerted control over his natural and social environment. It has been said that culture is a set of beliefs, attitudes, behavior, customs, and traditions, as well as values that are learned and shared. These values are maintained through learning and teaching values, attitudes, and actions (Bayram Değer, 2017).
The following definitions indicate that culture is a non-written connection between the past and the present, bridging individuals within a society who are connected through their shared pasts. It is also significant to understand that the concept of “culture” also differs within each community and, consequently, can have an enormous impact on how individuals perceive phenomena such as health, illness, happiness, and sadness and how these feelings are perceived expressed. It should also be noted that culture affects the perception of health, and the perception differs according to the health cultures. Biology, environment, and cultural practices determine an individual’s ability to maintain health. During human life, several aspects are affected by cultures, including parental attitudes, child-rearing patterns, how children are raised, the languages they speak, how they dress, how they believe, how they treat patients, how they are fed, and how funerals are conducted (Bayram Değer, 2017).
Madeleine Leininger, a transcultural nurse, developed the Transcultural Nursing Theory or Culture Care Nursing Theory and discovered while working as a nurse that a lack of cultural and care knowledge was preventing nurses from understanding the many variations required to support compliance, healing, and wellness in inpatient care. She developed the theory of Transcultural Nursing because of these observations. According to this theory, culturally congruent nursing care is provided by cognitively based acts, decisions, or facilitations that are tailored to fit the cultural values, beliefs, or lifeways of the individual, group, or institution (Gonzalo. 2021).
