Description
The Cornerstone Text on Transcultural Nursing Concepts - Updated with the Latest Advances and Breakthroughs
A Doody's Core Title for 2021!
Leininger's Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research & Practices, Fourth Edition offers theoretical and practical guidance about the provision of client-focused care by integrating cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways into an individualized plan of care.
This acclaimed resource presents a global comparative perspective about Western and non-Western cultures and examines the potential future directions for transcultural nursing with insights into rural and urban cultures in the United States including the culture of homeless mothers and children. The book covers important topics such as transcultural nursing, research, and healthcare in Kenya, Southeast Asia, Haiti, Syria, and Taiwan, as well as translational research, globalization, conflict resolution, mental health considerations, Ayurvedic medicine, genetics and genomics in healthcare, integration of care and caring, and an overview of transcultural history, concepts, and principles.
Reflecting the work of experts and scholars in the discipline, the Fourth Edition includes twenty-five new chapters. There are also major updates to the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, Ethnonursing Research Method, Sunrise Enabler, and other enablers.
SPECIAL FOR FACULTY: Chapter PowerPoints available online at MHProfessional.com, including learning objectives, figures, and chapter summaries to support classroom use.Author: Marilyn McFarland, Hiba Wehbe-Alamah
Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical
Published: 04/10/2018
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.30w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780071841139
ISBN10: 007184113X
BISAC Categories:
- Non-Classifiable | Non-Classifiable
- Medical | Nursing | Fundamentals & Skills
- Medical | Nursing | Nurse & Patient
About the Author
Marilyn R. McFarland, PhD, RN, CTN-A, FNP-BC is a Professor in the Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions and Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint. As a Certified Transcultural Nurse and as a Transcultural Nursing Author and Scholar, Dr. McFarland has been nationally and internationally recognized for her contributions to transcultural nursing by the Transcultural Nursing Society, has co-authored two texts with Dr. Madeleine Leininger: Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory (2006) and Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research, & Practice (2002) and has co-authored the third edition of Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory with Dr. Hiba Wehbe-Alamah.
Hiba B. Wehbe-Alamah, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, CTN-A is an Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions and Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint. She was inducted as a Transcultural Nursing Scholar in 2011 by the Transcultural Nursing Society and is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2014 National American Arab Nurses' Association Angel of Mercy Award; the 2015 University of Michigan-Flint Provost Innovative Teaching Prize; and the 2015 Transcultural Nursing Society Madeleine M. Leininger Award.This title is not returnable