Thesis
Family-centered care, patient-centered care, and culturally competent care: common themes and background meanings
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
2009
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/104599
Abstract
In nursing education and practice, the terms family-centered care, patient-centered care, and culturally competent care are used to describe many ways of being a nurse. Nursing competence (or nursing care) incorporates all of these concepts to some extent. Institutional and organizational definitions of family-centered, patient-centered, and culturally competent care overlap. In order to provide nursing care that is appropriate, nurses may face the paradox of looking at patients as both part of a group and as individuals with personal beliefs and needs that are not necessarily those of their culture. In any nurse-patient relationship there are two cultures--that of the patient and that of the nurse, for nursing may be described as having a culture of its own within the larger healthcare culture. Nurses were interviewed about their ways of being family-centered, patient-centered, and culturally competent. A Heideggerian approach to analysis of the narrative data is used to explore the common themes and background meanings for the participants. Emerging literature from New Zealand, critical analyses, and the narrative analysis and recommendations are made for nursing. Self-reflection is discussed as an important technique for nurses to learn in order to support on-going development of nursing skills that will support safe and appropriate patient care for any patient who is different from the nurse.
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- Title
- Family-centered care, patient-centered care, and culturally competent care
- Creators
- M. Catherine Pollock-Robinson
- Contributors
- Dawn Doutrich (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Nursing, College of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525382201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis