Sunrise Enabler Model

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Madeleine Leininger’s concepts are theoretically defined because the concepts are identified, relationships are proposed, and predictions made (McEwen & Wills, 2014, p. 521). Leininger believed routine nursing interventions may not always be suitable and the need to use knowledge from her theory to converge on cultural care practices as opposed to relying strictly on medical data. Interpreting the factors influencing gaps in care marks a difference between health and well-being of a patient and unwanted nurse-patient conflicts. Major concepts of the model are ethnicity, culture care diversities, culture care, and parallels relating to transcultural human care (McEwen & Wills, 2014, p. 233). Leininger’s theory included propositions and assumptions that help explain or guide action in providing culturally congruent nursing care. For example, she believes culture care …show more content…

Nursing care must be based on education other than the literature. The Sunrise Enabler Model was developed with the notion “let the sun enter the researcher’s mind” and learn about unknown variables affecting culture care (Smith & Parker, 2015, p. 313). Madeleine’s theory was created from her clinical experience and observation that nursing lacked cultural knowledge to provide culturally based care. She later developed the sunrise enabler to provide a diagram of different tenets to understand it in entirety to discover and implement culture care findings and evidenced-based recommendations to guide nursing practice (Smith & Parker, 2015, p. 312). The sunrise enabler model and culture care theory has further substantiated and demonstrated the findings from the studies and influence it has on nursing practice and nursing education. The enabler model is a strength of the transcultural theory because it helps nurses move closer to attain congruent culturally competent

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