Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention

By Joyce Newman Giger and Ruth Elaine Davidhizar

Book Overview

Provide quality care for clients from culturally diverse backgrounds Transcultural Nursing, 8th Edition shows you how to apply assessment and intervention strategies to individuals from a variety of different cultures. Based on Giger and Davidhizer's unique transcultural model, this text helps you design culturally sensitive care with use of the six key aspects of cultural assessment: communication, time, space, social organization, environmental control, and biologic variations. Written by nursing educators Joyce Newman Giger and Linda G. Haddad, Transcultural Nursing shows how an understanding of cultural variations and individual patient needs will help you provide safe and effective care.

UNIQUE The six key aspects of cultural assessment each receive a full chapter of coverage, allowing you to also apply the Transcultural Assessment Model?to cultures not covered in the text. Case studies and critical decision-making questions help you apply the assessment framework to practice. 23 chapters on specific cultural groups apply this assessment model to the clients most commonly encountered in United States health care settings, with nearly all chapters written by contributors who are part of that ethnic group. Client care plans in culture-specific chapters show how to apply principles to the needs of individuals. Review questions reinforce your understanding of cultural principles, with answers found in the back of the book. Discussions of spirituality?throughout the text provide a holistic, integrated approach to culture, beliefs, and assessment. NEW co-author Dr. Linda Haddad is an internationally recognized cultural scholar who has taught nursing around the globe, has acted as an advisor and coordinator for the World Health Organization, and has published over 30 scholarly articles on nursing with a focus on understanding the cultural implication to care. UPDATED Cultural chapters are completely revised to reflect the shifting experiences of cultural groups in our society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032369554X
• ISBN13: 9780323695541
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.1"

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.