Title: Describe the cultural and psychosocial aspects of health care in a changing society.
Course: Practical Nursing I (14052-I) > Section: Describing Fundamental Concepts of Nursing

Description should include

- cultural and psychosocial factors
- spiritual health
- structural changes in the family
- financial and geographical considerations
- global nursing concepts
- disparities in healthcare and their effects
- transcultural nursing theory.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How do beliefs and cultural factors affect the nursing practice and health care?
- Why is it important to understand spiritual health?
- What is the concept of caring as it relates to health, including the healing touch concept?
- How do changes to the family structure affect society?
- What factors influence access to health care, and how can disparities be remedied??
- How does effective communication help one meet the needs of clients from all social classes?
- How does Madeleine Leininger’s theory of Transcultural Nursing apply to the nursing care of immigrant cultures?