Leininger’s Sunrise Model

Leininger’s Sunrise Model
Leininger’s Sunrise Model
Chapter 1 of Andrews and Boyle (2016) discusses Leininger’s Sunrise Model of transcultural nursing. However, other models are described and are important to acknowledge, as well.
Research the wonderful scholarly resources available to you in the Chamberlain Library. Select a Transcultural Nursing Model/Theory.
Briefly explain the model/theory in your own words so your classmates will understand the general premises of the model/theory.
Then, explain how you would be able to apply the model in your practice setting.
“Cognitively based assistive, supporting, facilitative, or enabling behaviors or decisions that are largely tailored to fit with individual, group, or institution’s cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways,” according to Leininger’s Culture Care Theory.
The goal of the care is for it to be culturally appropriate or useful in terms of meaning and health outcomes for persons from various cultural backgrounds.
When the nurse-patient interaction includes the following elements, culturally congruent care is possible: “Together, the nurse and the client creatively build a new or different care lifestyle for the client’s health or well-being.”
This style necessitates the use of both general and professional knowledge, as well as the integration of a wide range of ideas into nursing care actions and goals.
For the best interests of the clients, care knowledge and expertise are frequently remodeled.
As a result, for culturally congruent nursing care, all care modalities necessitate the nurse and clients (consumers) working together to identify, plan, implement, and assess each caring mode.
These modes can motivate nurses to develop nursing actions and decisions utilizing new knowledge and culturally based ways to give meaningful and fulfilling wholistic care to people, groups or institutions.”
Transcultural nursing is a movement in nursing care that arose from Leininger’s approach.
“A substantive area of study and practice focused on comparative cultural care (caring) values, beliefs, and practices of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures with the goal of providing culture-specific and universal nursing care practices in promoting health or well-being or to help people face unfavorable human conditions, illness,” Leininger defined transcultural nursing in 1995.
Leininger coined new terminology to describe her theory’s fundamental concepts.
The model addresses the following concepts:
Care is the act of assisting others with actual or projected needs in order to improve a human condition or prepare for death.
Caring is an action or behavior oriented towards offering care.
Culture refers to a single individual’s or group’s acquired, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, standards, and lifeways that shape their thinking, decisions, behaviors, and systematic ways of living.
Culture Care refers to the various parts of culture that impact and assist a person or group in improving their human condition, as well as dealing with illness and death.
Differences in meanings, values, or accepted forms of care in or between groups of people are referred to as culture care diversity.
The term “cultural care universality” refers to a shared set of values or meanings that can be found across numerous cultures.
Nursing is a disciplined profession that focuses on care issues.
People’s worldview refers to how they view the world or universe in order to form their own particular perspective on what life is all about.
Social and Cultural Structure
Spirituality, social structure, political concerns, economics, educational patterns, technology, cultural values, and ethnohistory are all dimensions that influence people’s cultural responses within a cultural environment.
A state of well-being that is culturally defined and valued by a specific culture is referred to as health.
Nursing care actions that help people from specific cultures keep and employ key cultural care values related to healthcare problems or situations are referred to as cultural care preservation or maintenance.
Creative nursing acts that help people of a particular culture adapt or negotiate with others in the healthcare community in order to achieve the shared aim of an optimal health outcome for patients of a specified culture are referred to as Cultural Care Accommodation or Negotiation.
The therapeutic acts conducted by culturally competent nurses are referred to as Cultural Care Re-Patterning or Restructuring.
These acts allow a patient to adjust personal health behaviors towards better outcomes while honoring the patient’s cultural values.