Abstract Graves’ disease in an autoimmune disorder that causes hyperthyroidism in various patient populations. It is mostly prevalent in Asian and Caucasian women who live in iodine deficient areas but has been found to affect a small number of men and children. The cause of Graves’ disease is unknown but can be diagnosed by identifying…
The Importance of Homeostasis in Development on Hyperthyroidism
A female patient, 37 years old, came into clinic complaining mainly of difficulty sleeping, fatigue, frequent bowel movements and heart palpitations. As a physician, I needed to know more about the symptoms and signs the patient was experiencing in order to understand this syndrome. From what she expressed, there could be a myriad of syndromes….
Culture Challenges For Nursing Practices
One of the main factors identified is communication difficulties (Singh and Sheik, 2006). In cross-cultural encounters, the need to demonstrate effective communication assumes a greater significance because there could be scope for misunderstanding and conflicts that can lead to miscommunication (DoH, 2001; RCN, 2007 and Thom, 2008). Communication difficulty between the patient and healthcare professionals…
Critique of Madeleine Leiningers Culture Care Theory
Introduction This paper is an analysis and critique of a published nursing philosophy and theory by the nurse theorist Madeleine Leininger, called Culture Care theory. The analysis is based on Leininger’s publications about her theory starting in the mid-1950’s with her major contribution stemming from her second book, Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research, and Practice…
Culture and ethnicity: The delivery of health care
Maori people comprises a large proportion of users of health services and the health status of Maori is recognized as a health priority area (Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ), 2009). To work effectively and providing Maori health centered nursing care, it is prerequisite for nurses to know history of New Zealand, understand Maori health…
Effective Leadership And Patient Safety Culture
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year as a consequence of medical error. These alarming figures published in the IOM article, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (Kohn, Corrigan, and Donaldson, 1999) caught the attention of health care professionals worldwide and radically transformed…
Theory of Culture Care: Diversity and Universality
Introduction The ever increasing multicultural world we live in today makes us see cultural competency as a really fundamental element in health care. A main feature of culture is its power to bring people together. Studying the concept of culture can lead to exceptional health care since it will establish a close bond between the…
Leiningers Culture Care Theory of Nursing
Around the world Madeline Leininger is considered the founder of the theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality and also for the discovery of the research method known as “enthonursing” or “transcultural nursing”. She was the first nurse to theorize about human care from a worldview rather than the usual medical view. She is a…
Bullying Culture in the Nursing Workforce
Bullying is one of the major forms of violence that can occur in any workforce, including nursing. Considering its negative impact on victims’ overall well being and emotion (psychological damage), workplace bullying is now recognised as a major occupational hazard. Many nursing literatures have suggested that bullying is prevalent in the nursing workplace around the…
Patient Care And The Effects Culture Can Have
This essay is going to focus on my experience of caring for a patient who was admitted on a forensic ward in relation to culture diversity and the impact this had on my ability to communicate and engage effectively with them. Due to confidentiality NMC (2008) am going to refer to this patient as Mr…