Discussion Post: Select a nursing concept and include a nursing theory. Provide a response to each one of the steps included in a concept analysis regarding your selected concept. This information does not have to be comprehensive but provides a foundation to the upcoming assignment.
APA Format. 300 words. Be sure to include a scholarly reference.
My nursing concept is: Care congruent with cultural values, beliefs, and practices
My nursing theory is: Madeleine Leininger - Transcultural Nursing
Below is some information about Madeleine Leininger and also the steps to analyse a concept.
Madeleine Leininger: One of the newer nursing theories, Transcultural Nursing first appeared in 1978. According to Leininger, the goal of nursing is to provide care congruent with cultural values, beliefs, and practices. Leininger states that care is the essence of nursing and the dominant, distinctive and unifying feature. She says there can be no cure without caring, but that there may be caring with curing. Health care personnel should work towards an understanding of care and the values, health beliefs, and life-styles of different cultures, which will form the basis for providing culture-specific care.
Walker and Avant (2011) described concept analysis as a process to identify basic elements of a concept. The strategy to analyse a concept includes eight steps (Walker & Avant 2011). The steps include: selection of a concept; determine purposes of the analysis; explore multiple uses of the concept; establish defining attributes; construct a model case; potentially construct contrary and other cases; identify antecedents and consequences; and define empirical referents (Walker & Avant 2011).