Transcultural Nursing

Overview

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 Aspects
2 Essential Transcultural Nursing Care Concepts, Principles, Examples, and Policy Statements
3 Part I: The Theory of Culture Care and Ethnonursing Research Method
Part II: Selected Research Findings from the Culture Care Theory
4 Culture Care Assessments for Congruent Competency Practices
5 Part I. Toward Integrative Generic and Professional Health Care
Part II. Ethics of Alternative Medicine: Primum Non Nocere
6 The Biocultural Basis of Transcultural Nursing
7 Western Ethical, Moral, and Legal Dimensions within the Culture care Theory
Section II: Special Topics in Transcultural Nursing
8 Cultures and Tribes of Nursing, Hospitals, and the Medicine Culture
9 Transcultural Food Functions, Beliefs, and Practices
10 Lifecycle Culturally Based Care and Health Patterns of the Gadsup of
New Guinea: A Non-Western Culture
11 Transcultural Mental Health Nursing
12 Transcultural Nursing Care and Health Perspectives of HIV/AIDS
13 Urban USA Transcultural Care Challenges with Multiple Cultures
and Culturally Diverse Providers
14 Ethical, Moral, and Legal Aspects of Transcultural Nursing
Section III: Culture Care Theory, Research, and Practice in Diverse Cultures
15 Anglo-American (United States) Culture Care Values, Beliefs, and Lifeways
16 Arab Muslims and Culture Care
17 African American and Culture Care
18 South African Culturally Based Health - Illness Patterns and Humanistic Care Practices
19 Family Violence and Culture Care with African and Euro-American
Cultures in the United States
20 Elder Care in Urban Namibian Families: An Ethnonursing Study
21 Culture Care of the Mexican American Family
22 Philippine American Culture Care
23 Culture Care Theory and Elderly Polish American
24 Finnish Women in Birth: Culture Care Meanings and Practices
25 Taiwanese Americans Culture Care Meanings and Expressions
26 Transcultural Nursing and Health Care among Native American Peoples
27 Lithuanian Americans and Culture Care
28 Japanese Americans and Culture Care
29 Jewish Americans and Russian Jews Culture Care
30 India: Transcultural Nursing and Health Care
31 Canadian Transcultural Nursing: Trends and Issues
32 Culture Care of the Homeless in Western United States
33 Reflections on Australia and Transcultural Nursing in the New Millennium
Section IV: Transcultural Nursing Teaching, Administration, and Consultation
34 Transcultural Nursing: Curricular Concepts, Principles, and Teaching and Learning Activities for the 21st Century
35 Transcultural Nursing Administration and Consultation
Section V. The Future of Transcultural Nursing
36 The Future of Transcultural Nursing: A Global Perspective

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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