Application of Leininger's Culture Care Model in relation to the case study

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Application of Leininger's Culture Care Model in relation to the case study
Leininger's Culture Care Model is based on the concept of the transcultural nursing.
According to this model, different cultures have different behaviors to express caring and
diverse health and illness values. The transcultural nursing of the Leininger’s culture care
model is guided by technological factors, diverse religious and complex philosophical
factors, kingship and other social factors, cultural values and beliefs in the life-ways, political
and legal factors, economic factors and educational factors. These inter-related factors
influence the care expressions and holistic health approach (McFarland & Wehbe-Alamah,
2014).
In relation to the case study, Nurse Hernandez must consider the diet plan and the
feeding habits of Mrs. Franklin-Jones while making her discharge planning. Mrs. Franklin-
Jones was found saying that she needs to learn cooking in a different way or might ask her
inmate Tomas to do the cooking in order to follow the diet plan recommended by the doctors.
Here the role of the nursing professional will be to frame the diet plan of Mrs. Franklin-Jones
in accordance with the Jamaican feeding habits under a controlled supervision of professional
dietician. This will help to reduce the headache of Mrs. Franklin Jones of learning new
cooking styles and will help to increase her faith over her cooking habits. According to Chan,
Sit & Lau (2014) transcultural nursing, guided by emotional intelligence helps to increase the
overall outcome of care via increasing the faith of the patient in his or her own cultural
values. Moreover, Cook and Brunton (2018) are of the opinion that moral emotions increase
the active participation of the patients in healthcare. If Mr. Franklin Jones is encourage to
follow her style of cooking in order to abide by the diet plan, then she will be able to follow
the proper diet more stringently. A proposal of apparent new diet has opposed Mrs. Franklin
Jones from reading the new diet chart (“I guess that I need to study those papers they gave me

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about what foods I should eat and not eat”). Encouragement of culturally competent diet will
increase interest of Mr. Franklin Jones in diet planning.
Importance of Culture Care Diversity in Nursing Health Care Delivery
According to the U.S Bureau of Census (2018), more than 30% of the population in
the U.S is composed of people from diverse ethnicities other than non-Hispanic Whites. This
significant percentage of multicultural population has increased the importance of culturally
competent nursing or trans-cultural nursing in healthcare. According to the professional
nursing standards in the U.S (, a nurse must practice in a holistic manner. The holistic nursing
practice mainly encompasses physical, psychological, social, and emotional and the spiritual
needs of the people (American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2018). It is important that
the nurses to identity and satisfy these needs in order to deliver patient centered care, a
hallmark of nursing practice. A detailed emphasis over the spiritual, social and psychological
needs of the patient is guided by the cultural thoughts of an individual. Thus giving
importance overall the culturally diversity of the healthcare service users will help in the
promotion of holistic care approach and thereby helping to implement patient centered care.
Rathert, Wyrwich and Boren (2013) argued that at present patient centered care is an
important aspect of the care delivery approach and it helps to increase the overall outcome of
the care by giving importance to both mental and physical health.
In relation to the case study, it can be said that the culturally competent nursing will
be very effective for Mrs. Franklin-Jones. From the case study it is evident the Mrs. Franklin-
Jones lack a clear perspective about her cardio-vascular condition. She has been found
saying, “I was really surprised when I got that bad pain in my chest”. Culturally competent
nursing will help to increase her awareness about the disease and thereby helping her to abide
by the therapy and the diet plan. According to Renzaho et al. (2013), person centered care