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