Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention

by Joyce Newman Giger, Ruth Elaine Davidhizar

This resource addresses specific assessment and intervention strategies needed for clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. The book provides a systematic model of nursing assessment and intervention which takes into account six cultural phenomena: communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations. The model then serves as the organizing framework for the rest of the book.

* Features Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model, with a full chapter devoted to each of the six aspects of cultural assessment, to help the reader apply this model to any client of any culture. * Presents critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter to help students apply the assessment framework in practice. * Includes an expansion of the spiritual component throughout, with an emphasis on various religions. * Offers clarification of some of the biological variations for select cultural groups. * Includes most recent census information and statistics for each cultural group presented.

Genres: Nursing

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Arizela · Rating 1 out of 5]

There were a lot of stereotypes conveyed uncritically in this textbook in the name of informing nurses about common "cultural practices."

[Ginger Bell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book and very helpful for my college course.