**Selected for 2025 Doody's Core Titles® in Community Health**
Provide quality care for clients from culturally diverse backgrounds! Transcultural Nursing, 9th 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 deliver culturally sensitive care with use of the six key aspects of cultural assessment: communication, time, space, social organization, environmental control, and biologic variations. Practical, real-world coverage shows how an understanding of cultural variations and individual patient needs will help you promote safe and effective care.
- UPDATED! Content throughout reflects the latest research and thinking related to transcultural nursing, as well as updated Census data
- UPDATED! Cultural chapters reflect the shifting experiences of cultural groups in our society
- NEW! Jamaican Americans chapter addresses the unique cultural and healthcare needs of this population
- UNIQUE! Individual chapters on the six key aspects of cultural assessment allow you to also apply the Transcultural Assessment Model to cultures not covered in the text
- Twenty-four chapters on specific cultural groups apply this assessment model to the clients most commonly encountered in United States healthcare settings
- Case studies and critical decision-making questions in each chapter help you apply the assessment framework in practice
- Client care plans in culture-specific chapters demonstrate how to apply principles to specific client needs
- Coverage includes information on biological differences among individuals of different racial groups; differences in drug interaction and metabolism specific to various ethnic groups; and clustering of certain pathologies in specific racial groups
- Discussions of spirituality throughout the text present a holistic approach to culture and beliefs that provides a more integrated approach to assessment
- Review questions in each chapter (with answers found in the back of the text) help reinforce knowledge
Author: Joyce Newman Giger,Yolanda M. Powell-Young
Publisher: Elsevier
Publish Date: 2024-09-02
Edition: 9
ISBN: 0443121303
ISBN 13: 9780443121302
Dimension:
Weight: Weight: 0.992080179 pounds
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 752
**Selected for 2025 Doody's Core Titles® in Community Health**
Provide quality care for clients from culturally diverse backgrounds! Transcultural Nursing, 9th 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 deliver culturally sensitive care with use of the six key aspects of cultural assessment: communication, time, space, social organization, environmental control, and biologic variations. Practical, real-world coverage shows how an understanding of cultural variations and individual patient needs will help you promote safe and effective care.
- UPDATED! Content throughout reflects the latest research and thinking related to transcultural nursing, as well as updated Census data
- UPDATED! Cultural chapters reflect the shifting experiences of cultural groups in our society
- NEW! Jamaican Americans chapter addresses the unique cultural and healthcare needs of this population
- UNIQUE! Individual chapters on the six key aspects of cultural assessment allow you to also apply the Transcultural Assessment Model to cultures not covered in the text
- Twenty-four chapters on specific cultural groups apply this assessment model to the clients most commonly encountered in United States healthcare settings
- Case studies and critical decision-making questions in each chapter help you apply the assessment framework in practice
- Client care plans in culture-specific chapters demonstrate how to apply principles to specific client needs
- Coverage includes information on biological differences among individuals of different racial groups; differences in drug interaction and metabolism specific to various ethnic groups; and clustering of certain pathologies in specific racial groups
- Discussions of spirituality throughout the text present a holistic approach to culture and beliefs that provides a more integrated approach to assessment
- Review questions in each chapter (with answers found in the back of the text) help reinforce knowledge
Author: Joyce Newman Giger,Yolanda M. Powell-Young
Publisher: Elsevier
Publish Date: 2024-09-02
Edition: 9
ISBN: 0443121303
ISBN 13: 9780443121302
Dimension:
Weight: Weight: 0.992080179 pounds
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 752