Transcultural Nursing: Assessment & Intervention

By Joyce Newman Giger and Ruth Elaine Davidhizar

Book Overview

Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention, 4/e, addresses specific assessment and intervention strategies needed for clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Part 1 provides a systematic model of nursing assessment and intervention which takes into account six cultural phenomena: communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations. In Part 2 these six cultural phenomena are systematically applied to the assessment and care of individuals in specific cultures. Since the first edition Giger & Davidhizar has been praised for its quick reference, user-friendly assessment tool for use with clients in diverse clinical settings.

Giger throughout provides clarification of some of the biological variations for select cultural groups. Transcultural Nursing also has an outstanding holistic overview of genetics in Chapter 7 that helps the student understand genetics and genetic based diseases that are cultural, racially, and ethnic based. The 4th edition will be thoroughly updated throughout with an emphasis on including new genetic and biologic variations.Features Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model, with a full chapter devoted to each of the six aspects of cultural assessment, to help the reader apply this model to any client of any culture.Presents critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter to help students apply the assessment framework in practice.Includes an expansion of the spiritual component throughout, with an emphasis on various religions.Offers clarification of some of the biological variations for select cultural groups.A holistic overview of genetics helps readers understand genetics and genetic based diseases that are cultural, racially, and ethnic based.Update throughout with an emphasis on including new genetic and biologic variationsNew appendix includes a competency test with over 70 comprehensive multiple choice questions

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323022952
• ISBN13: 9780323022958
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Transcultural Nursing Assessment and Intervention

Transcultural Nursing: Assessment & Intervention (Transcultural Nursing)This was a required text for a class in my BSN program. It is thorough, concise and a valuable resourse. It will be placed in our facility as a reference.

Transcultural Nursing:Assessment and Intervention

Excellent resource for the health care provider. Well organized, comprehensive, current and a nursing model in existance for over 20 years for the cultural assessment of the client. A must for the practitioneer as well as the student. Nursing based yet broad applications for medicine and social scienes professionals. Giger and Davidhizar incorporate the works of over 20 content experts whom are practicing nurses, educators and administrators. I highly recommend this book as paramount to a well rounded nursing curriculum.

MSN grad

This book was invaluable to me when I was working on my Graduate project on Cultural Diversity in Healthcare. Highly recommend it to anyone wanting a good overview of the topic.

Exciting New Updates

I have just purchased and read the new exciting third edition to transcultural nursing. The new updates not only provide an indepth understanding to the various cultural groups, but leaps ahead of its nearest competitors by adding in-depth understanding of biological variations particulalrly those genetic in nature. This book has been the standard for some 10 years. I am again delighted with this work and would highly recommend it as the first book to be bought to understand this extremely important topics.

Core Collection item for Nursing Libraries

Selected by Brandon & Hill (Nursing Outlook, March-April, 1996) as one of best books for small nursing or medical libraries.