Overview
Main description
The most comprehensive guide to transcultural nursing in global settings, covering pain management, mental health therapies, child-rearing practices, certification, and much more. Features comparisons of western and non-western cultures, and information on multiple cultures of urban USA.
Table of contents
Section I: Transcultural Nursing: Essential Knowledge Dimensions 1 Transcultural Nursing and the Globalization of Health Care: Importance, Focus, and Historical Aspects2 Essential Transcultural Nursing Care Concepts, Principles, Examples, and Policy Statements3 Part I: The Theory of Culture Care and Ethnonursing Research Method Part II: Selected Research Findings from the Culture Care Theory4 Culture Care Assessments for Congruent Competency Practices5 Part I. Toward Integrative Generic and Professional Health Care Part II. Ethics of Alternative Medicine: Primum Non Nocere 6 The Biocultural Basis of Transcultural Nursing7 Western Ethical, Moral, and Legal Dimensions within the Culture care TheorySection II: Special Topics in Transcultural Nursing8 Cultures and Tribes of Nursing, Hospitals, and the Medicine Culture9 Transcultural Food Functions, Beliefs, and Practices10 Lifecycle Culturally Based Care and Health Patterns of the Gadsup of New Guinea: A Non-Western Culture11 Transcultural Mental Health Nursing12 Transcultural Nursing Care and Health Perspectives of HIV/AIDS13 Urban USA Transcultural Care Challenges with Multiple Cultures and Culturally Diverse Providers14 Ethical, Moral, and Legal Aspects of Transcultural NursingSection III: Culture Care Theory, Research, and Practice in Diverse Cultures15 Anglo-American (United States) Culture Care Values, Beliefs, and Lifeways16 Arab Muslims and Culture Care17 African American and Culture Care18 South African Culturally Based Health - Illness Patterns and Humanistic Care Practices19 Family Violence and Culture Care with African and Euro-American Cultures in the United States20 Elder Care in Urban Namibian Families: An Ethnonursing Study21 Culture Care of the Mexican American Family22 Philippine American Culture Care23 Culture Care Theory and Elderly Polish American24 Finnish Women in Birth: Culture Care Meanings and Practices25 Taiwanese Americans Culture Care Meanings and Expressions26 Transcultural Nursing and Health Care among Native American Peoples27 Lithuanian Americans and Culture Care28 Japanese Americans and Culture Care29 Jewish Americans and Russian Jews Culture Care30 India: Transcultural Nursing and Health Care31 Canadian Transcultural Nursing: Trends and Issues32 Culture Care of the Homeless in Western United States33 Reflections on Australia and Transcultural Nursing in the New MillenniumSection IV: Transcultural Nursing Teaching, Administration, and Consultation34 Transcultural Nursing: Curricular Concepts, Principles, and Teaching and Learning Activities for the 21st Century35 Transcultural Nursing Administration and ConsultationSection V. The Future of Transcultural Nursing 36 The Future of Transcultural Nursing: A Global Perspective
Back cover copy
Here is the most comprehensive presentation of transcultural nursing in a global setting ever written -- from two pioneers in the field.
FEATURES:
* Provides a global comparative perspective on Western and non-Western cultures
* Uses the Leininger’s Culture Care Theory and Ethnonursing Method to provide an effective blend of theory and practical clinical information
* Valuable topical coverage of pain, mental health therapies, child-rearing practice, as applied within the transcultural setting
* Covers Anglo-American, Arab Muslim, Philippine American, Elderly Polish, Taiwanese American, Lithuanian American, Japanese, Jewish American, Native American, and Mexican American culture care
* Examines the future direction of transcultural nursing
* NEW insights into the multiple cultures of urban USA and culture care of the homeless in western USA
* NEW chapters on transcultural nursing and healthcare in India, Australia, Canada, and Taiwan
