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Nursing Metaparadigm and Culturally Proficient Nursing Care

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Nursing Metaparadigm and Culturally Proficient Nursing Care

Nursing, Environment, Person, and health are the four vital and connected concepts that form the metaparadigm (Edwards, 2019). Delivering nursing care that is culturally competent requires recognizing the singularity of patients’ healthcare needs from many cultures and catering to their welfare. The American Nurses Association recognizes that integrating ethically competent healthcare programs in the delivery of care decreases health inequities and increases healthcare outcomes for culturally diverse patient categories. This examination attempts to establish the impact of the nursing metaparadigm while providing culturally sufficient nursing care.

Through Nightingale's theory, the nursing metaparadigm fundamental principles primarily focus on the patient and their surroundings, with the goal of manipulating the patient's environment to facilitate recovery (Masters, 2018). Consequently, the nursing metaparadigm promotes patient- and outcome-centered care independent of the cultural background of the individual patient. Thus, the metaparadigm ideas aid in evaluating the care environment's focal point and external surroundings in order to construct patient-specific treatment. The metaparadigm principles that emphasize the outcomes of treatment and the patient's safety aid in evaluating the similarities and differences connected to the patient's cultural and personal beliefs, facilitating the provision of care that is compatible with the patient's culture and beliefs (Roux & Halstead, 2017).

Nightingale emphasized the intimate connection between patients and their surroundings, as well as the necessity for nurses to safeguard patients (Masters, 2018). According to Nightingale, the metaparadigm notion heightens awareness of patient health and its impacts. Thus, the metaparadigm principles would aid in the creation of a good atmosphere that meets the cultural demands and backgrounds of their patients (Black, 2019). In addition, the environment notion of the metaparadigm offers a framework for comprehending the need to alter the patient's environment to promote positive health adjustments. Nightingale determines that the primary responsibility of nurses is to promote proper management of the patient's environment in order to safeguard them (Black, 2019). In this way, the metaparadigm in nursing enables nurses to comprehend the various facets of adapting the environment of the patient to their cultural necessities.

Nursing metaparadigm leads nurses in adjusting treatment to the preferences of patients. This question, central to Henderson's concept, asks nurses what they can do for patients that they would do for themselves if they could (Black, 2019). Henderson's theory stipulates that the nurse's role is to assist the ill and execute tasks that contribute most to the patient's health restoration, depending on how the patient might have assisted him or herself if he or she had the necessary strength (Black, 2019). Thus, the nursing metaparadigm transforms the nurse from a patient's assistant to a partner. The metaparadigm encourages nurses to involve patients in their care process. Consequently, by including patients in the development of their care plans, providers are compelled to include their goals and views.

The nursing metaparadigm assists in identifying the differences and similarities in human care based on an individual's culture and worldview (Edwards, 2019). The culture-care theory of Leininger elaborates on the role of culture in achieving quality healthcare outcomes. According to Edwards (2019), Leininger defines the nursing notion of metaparadigm to being a humanitarian profession that tries to assist individuals in regaining their wellbeing or coping with special needs in culturally appropriate ways. Consequently, nursing metaparadigm assists in identifying the differences found between the cultural traits of nurses and patients and encourages interpersonal dialogue between both nurses plus patients in order to determine the differences as well as the key to these variations. Thus, nursing metaparadigm improves the interpersonal contact between nurses as well as patients in order to promote cultural preservation, adaptations, and re-patterning of the processes in order to provide culturally appropriate healthcare (Edwards, 2019). In this way, one may construct culturally-specific explanations, educate colleagues, as well as respect patients' culturally-based choices in order to provide the most suitable treatment according to their requirements and situations.

References

Black, B. (2019). Professional Nursing E-Book: Concepts & Challenges. In Google Books. Elsevier Health Sciences. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=J1GfDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Nursing+Theory:+The+Basis+for+Professional+Nursing.+In+Professional+nursing:+Concepts+%26+challenges+&ots=aMIPF7HZJ-&sig=Zw1_MGruBAwjthbdlvu48xE34Oo

Edwards, A. M. (2019). Implementation of a Transcultural Nursing Education Program to Improve Nurses’ Cultural Competence. Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6996/

Masters, K. (2018). Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice. In Google Books. Jones & Bartlett Learning. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=HpFyDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&ots=2yPGcP95Nl&sig=GkdsOn-LdiKd3_IfxBiV57MoNiU

Roux, G., & Halstead, J. A. (2017). Issues and Trends in Nursing. In Google Books. Jones & Bartlett Learning. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=b9zPDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR1&dq=metaparadigm+principles+in+treatment+and+the+patient%27s+safety+&ots=LyBZKqq5g6&sig=kYkTaLS618ochmOA3eOuTFzNB88