PubMed Health⌕ Search
Home/Archive/PubMed

PubMed · 7822607

Making anthropology clinically relevant to nursing care.

L DeSantis
View original source ↗Export metadata ↓

Abstract

Transcultural nursing is generally seen as the interface between anthropology and nursing. A prime objective of transcultural nursing has been the translation of concepts from anthropology and nursing into the nursing process to guide a culturally informed clinical practice. To date, there has been a general inability of transcultural nursing to operationalize the concept of culture to develop culturally competent clinicians; that is, nurses who are capable of knowing, utilizing, and appreciating the effects of culture in the resolution of an individual, group, community, and/or family problem. A model of transcultural nursing is described, for incorporating the concept of culture into patient care. It includes the concepts of cultural brokerage, simultaneous dual ethnocentrism, multiple clinical realities, the patient as cultural informant, and cultural assessment of patient views of clinical reality. The problems of making anthropology and transcultural nursing clinically relevant through the transcultural nursing model are presented and methods are recommended for addressing such problems.

Explore related subjects

Anthropology, CulturalClinical CompetenceEthnologyHumansModels, NursingNegotiatingNurse-Patient RelationsNursing ProcessNursing TheoryOrganizational ObjectivesProblem SolvingTranscultural NursingJournal Article

Keep this discovery

Explore connections, maps & timelines

BibTeXRIS

L DeSantis. 1994. Making anthropology clinically relevant to nursing care.. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1994.20040707.x

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related citations

PubMed2007

Comparison of plants used for skin and stomach problems in Trinidad and Tobago with Asian ethnomedicine.

This paper provides a preliminary evaluation of fifty-eight ethnomedicinal plants used in Trinidad and Tobago for skin problems, stomach problems, pain and internal parasites for safety and possible efficacy. Thirty respondents, ten of whom were male were interviewed from September 1996 to September 2000 on medicinal plant use for health problems. The respondents were obtained by snowball sampling, and were found in thirteen different sites, 12 in Trinidad and one in Tobago. The uses are compared to those current in Asia. Bambusa vulgaris, Bidens alba, Jatropha curcas, Neurolaena lobata, Peperomia rotundifolia and Phyllanthus urinaria are possibly efficacious for stomach problems, pain and internal parasites. Further scientific study of these plants is warranted.

Anthropology, Cultural↗
PubMed2007

[An anthropological view of addiction].

In psychiatric discourse, addiction is normally understood according to the original paradigm of "dependency" which claims lifelong and unchangeable dependency on the addictive substance or "psychotropic technique". In the attempt to reduce damage or achieve abstinency, therapeutic interests and understanding of the human mind contradict this inflexibility. This contradiction in psychiatric understanding of addiction can be viewed as a dynamic part of the addiction process. A philosophical anthropology of addiction is presented in that light. Using the concept "the psychotropic technique achieves a superior position", both sides of the psychiatric understanding are combined and integrated. The addictive mind and its self-awareness can then be understood as a "fragile monoidentity". Implications of such an understanding are discussed.

Anthropology, Cultural↗