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5 wrz 2012 · Important social meanings and understandings are brought to patient-nurse interaction in the community practice setting and impact upon performance. Performance includes the preferred role as patient or as nurse linked to expectations about interaction in the community practice setting.
But as a profession, nursing is a highly practical and well defined service role for delivering care to patients (Donaldson and Crowley 1978). Anthropology, even in its applied form, does not have a socially sanctioned (and therefore morally experienced) clinical, or service, mandate.
Nursing uses the model of illness and the model of disease and mediates the two, a distinction and relationship emphasized in nursing education. Nursing deals with treating disease, assisting the client in coping with discomforts, and in adapting lifestyles to the illness or treatment.
Nursing research has an interest in the ways that individuals, families, communities, and healthcare systems derive meaning, and sustain (or abandon) cultural traditions, recognizing them as critical to understanding and influencing health and health behavior.
5 wrz 2018 · Within cultural and medical anthropology, nursing was a field through which to understand broader cultural and societal values related to gender, care practices across cultures, and women's ...
Arguing for analyses of care that account for the kinds of projects, stakes, and obstacles that emerge as people engage in social reproduction in later life, this review traces the circulation of care across aging bodies, everyday practices, families, and nations.
1 lip 2012 · Nurse anthropologist, Madeleine Leininger, developed the culture care theory and ethnonursing research method to help researchers study transcultural human care phenomena and discover the knowledge nurses need to provide care in an increasingly multicultural world.
