TRANSCULTURAL NURSING

INTRODUCTION
Transcultural Nursing is a
specialty within Nursing, focused
on the comparative study and
analysis of different cultures and
subcultures.
Various groups are examined
with respect to their caring
behaviour, nursing care, health
and illness values, beliefs and
patterns of behaviour
TRANSCULTURAL
NURSING
• It was established in
1955 as a formal area of
inquiry and practice.
• It is a body of
knowledge that assists
in providing culturally
appropriate nursing
care
 CULTURE
• Set of values, beliefs and
traditions, that are held by a
specific group of people and
handed down from
generation to generation.
• Culture is also beliefs, habits,
likes, dislikes, customs and
rituals learn from one’s family.
 CULTURE
Language is primary through means of
transmitting culture.

Culture practice and beliefs are adapted

over time but they mainly remain
constant as long as they satisfy needs
 RELIGION
Is a set of belief in a divine or
super human power (or
powers) to be obeyed and
worshipped as the creator and
ruler of the universe.
Ethical values and religion
system of beliefs and practices,
difference within the culture
and across culture are found
 ETHNIC GROUP
Refers to a group of people
who share a common social
and cultural heritage that is
passed on to successive
generation.
Example: Indian culture,
American culture.
 CULTURAL CULTURE-
IDENTITY UNIVERSALS
Commonalities of
The sense of being part of
values, norms of
an ethnic group or
behavior, and life
culture
patterns that are similar
among different
cultures
MATERIAL CULTURE NON-MATERIAL
CULTURE
• Refers to objects (dress, Refers to beliefs, customs,
art, religious articles languages, social
institutions
SUBCULTURE BICULTURAL
Composed of people who A person who
have a distinct identity crosses two cultures,
but are related to a larger lifestyles, and sets of
cultural group
values.
 DIVERSITY

Refers to the fact or state

of being different.
Diversity can occur
between cultures and
within a cultural group.
 ACCULTURATION

People of a minority
group tend to assume
the attitudes, values,
beliefs, find practices of
the dominant society
resulting in a blended
cultural
pattern.
 RACE

The classification of people

according to shared biologic
characteristics, genetic
markers, or features. Notall
people of the same race have
the same culture.
For example: Indian race,
African race etc.
 Culturally diverse nursing care:

An optimal mode of health care delivery; it

refers to the variability of nursing approaches
needed to provide culturally appropriate care
that incorporates an individual’s cultural
values, beliefs, and practices including
sensitivity to the environment from which
the individual comes and to which the
individual may ultimately return..
 Transcultural nurses.

Nurses who practice the discipline

of transcultural nursing are called
transcultural nurses.
They are nurses who provide
knowledgeable, competent, and
safe care to people of
diverse cultures to themselves
and others
 The Transcultural Nursing Society
The Transcultural Nursing Society is the
official organization of transcultural nurses.
Chartered in 1974, the society is the publisher
of the Journal of Transcultral Nursing, a
publication that had been in existence since
1989.
 DEFINITIONS
According to the American Nurses
Association (1976),
consideration of individual
value systems and lifestyles
should be included in the
planning and health care for
each client Nursing curriculum
recognize the contribution
nursing to the health care
needsof a diverse and multi
cultural society lifestyle may
reflect cultural heritage
 DEFINITION
The transcultural nursing is
described as that which
Incorporates all aspects of a
person‘s culture in planning and
providing and providing care,
transcultural nursing encourages
an appreciation of all cultures
and discourages imposing
your/our cultural practices and
others.
 CONCLUSION
• Nurses need to be aware of and sensitive to
the cultural needs of clients. Practice of
nursing today demands that the nurse
identify and meet the cultural needs of
diverse groups, understand the social and
cultural reality of the client, family and
community, develop expertise to implement
culturally acceptable strategies to provide
nursing care, and identify and use resources
acceptable to the client