Modes of Nursing Actions

1. Culture Care Preservation and Maintenance

• Nurses has an essential role in the promotion of breastfeeding environment by advocating supportive facilities and systems such as mother and baby areas for breastfeeding and help for those who are having difficulties in breastfeeding by trying to consider personal and demographic variables that may influence the mothers intent to breastfeed. 

• Families involvement in patients total care plays a vital part in the promotion of health and prevention of illness.  

2. Culture Care Accomodation and Negotiation

• There are still some people around the world who are considering part of the domestic arena with established traditional and holistic healing practices which thought and believed to be an alternative to modern medicine. Indigenous spiritual healers are often the run to options according to their believes, tradition and culture but sometimes there are diseases and illnesses which could have been treated with early detection and diagnosis but since consulting a doctor or relying to modern medical practice would always be the last resort, disease condition often just gets worst.  

3. Culture Care Restructuring and Repatterning

• Nurses collaborates with self confessed alcoholics, chain smokers and or those who are drug addicts through health teachings and educating them about the effects of such addiction in their health, their job and most of all their family hence nurses plays a major role in the reformation of the individuals perception and beliefs in life.

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Citations

Book Source

Berman, A., Erb, G., Kozier, B., & Snyder, S. (2004). Fundamentals of nursing concepts, process, and practices. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc..

Leininger MM, Mcfarland MR. Transcultural nursing: concepts, theories, research and practice. 3rd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Online Sources

Leininger, M. (n.d.). Culture care diversity and universality. Retrieved from http://www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/arohap/aphome/NURS3036/Resources

Murphy, S.C. (2005, December). Transultural nursing. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1463039/