Authors

1Grettel Montero Ramírez, 2Lidia Silvia León Guerra, 2Madelaine González Alba, 1Agustina Marelys Sosa, 1Yuniet Le&oacu

Position

¹Licenciada en Enfermería. Profesora Asistente de la Filial de Ciencias Médicas de Granma, Haydee Santamaría Cuadrado. ²Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Celia Sánchez Manduley, Manzanillo (Granma).

Contact address

Grettel Montero Ramírez. C/ José Martí, 28 (entre Salud y Tomás Barrero). 87510 Manzanillo (Granma), Cuba.

Contact email: grettel@ftec.grm.sld.cu

Abstract

Madeleine Leininger, professional nurse and anthropologist, focused her theory from the belief that cultures can determine almost all the care they want or need to receive and that people are entitled to have their cultural values made known, respected, understood and used in health care services and, of course, in nursing. She established principles, assumptions and premises for community-based care on the basis that cultural attention is the purpose of nursing actions for the healing and well-being of individuals and groups of a diverse culture. The values, beliefs and practices of cultural attention will be influenced by such factors as the patient's perspective on the world, language, philosophy, religion, political affiliation, education and ethnic history. She established as a visual model of her theory of the rising sun (care) that provide nurses with the model to see the different areas that need to be considered when assessing and planning care for patients of different cultures, concluding that the cultural dimension is an alternative to the humanistic touch to nursing care such as ethnicity, religion, immigration and generational and regional differences.

Keywords:

Cross-cultural nursing; cultural carenursing care

Versión en Español

Título:

Reflexiones acerca de la Enfermería transcultural