Theoretical Basis For Advanced Nursing Paper

NR501 Theoretical Basis for Advanced Nursing

SanilVarghese

Chamberlain College of Nursing

NR501 Theoretical Basis for Advanced Nursing

According to Smith and Parker (2010), nursing theories are the practical guidelines that help nurses to have a specific pattern of thinking as they practice effective delivery of care every day and improve the patient outcome. Alligood (2003), also states that when nurses use a theoretical approach in their nursing process, it increases their knowledge and thereby helps the growth of nursing discipline.

I chose the specific theory of Trans Cultural Nursing (TCN) by Madelein Leininger. I shall use this theory to explain how we can solve problems in the field of nursing discipline. The major concept of

Participate in continuous cultural competence development.” ("Key Competencies," 2008, p. 2)

McFarland, Lewis and Easley (2006), utilized the transcultural nursing theory in the recruitment, engagement, and retention phases of Opportunities for Professional Education in Nursing [OPEN] for multicultural, educationally, and financially undertreated students (Sagar, 2014). Thus, different types of scholarships were provided to each student according to his/her needs to complete their courses.

The ethical aspect includes treating everybody as human with his or her own beliefs, culture, life style, and knowledge. Instead of trying to change cultural beliefs and attitudes of patients, the focus should be on getting closer to the culture they practice. Thus, by gaining their trust and cooperation, we provide effective patient care ("Case studies," 2012). Another ethical aspect of transcultural theory is that it avoids the danger of categorizing people by the name of race, culture, and ethnicity. Such categorization would result in segregation of specific culture and race. In addition, the criteria for a certain cultural group are not true to everybody who belongs to that race, ethnicity, and cultural group, which is well-supported by transcultural theory ("Case studies,"

The basis of the implementation of cultural competence starts from the students of undergraduate, graduate, and master’s level of nursing education. Hence, including the concepts of transcultural nursing theory into the course curriculum would result in creation of the most culturally competent work force, that are able to serve the multicultural patient population of our country. Use of TCN theory in nursing education leads to improvement in nurse-patient relationship, which eventually produces optimum patient care outcome and patient satisfaction. Therefore, the nursing education, the nursing practice and the nursing administration equally benefit from using the transcultural nursing theory principles. When our nursing discipline is modified to be transcultural, it promotes the evolution of an effective healthcare system. In the United States, the majority of the population is multicultural. It will be very helpful if we can provide health services to everybody in their own culturally specific way so that patients who are anxious about seeking healthcare due to cultural reasons can also access preventive health care services comfortably confidently. With the proper use of primary or preventive healthcare like vaccinations, routine physical exams, screening