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The Use Of The Ethnonursing Qualitative Research Method To Study Culture Care, Sandra J. Mixer, Hiba Wehbe-Alamah, Marilyn R. Mcfarland, Renee Burke

Sandra J Mixer

Leininger developed the ethnonursing research method to study transcultural human care phenomena using her theory of culture care diversity and universality. The ethnonursing research methodology which uses an open, largely inductive process of discovery to document, describe, understand, and interpret people’s meanings and experiences will be presented. The ethnonursing researcher functions as co-participant with informants working together to discover how people experience and practice care in their daily lives. Systematic and reflective processes are used while focusing on the cultural context to explicate lifeways and understand their meaning for informants. The ethnonursing method embraces the importance of discovery from the …

Nursing Faculty Care Expressions, Patterns, And Practices Related To Teaching Culture Care, Sandra J. Mixer

Sandra J Mixer

Introduction: Teaching culture care in nursing education is critical to ensuring a culturally competent workforce. The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover faculty care that facilitates teaching students to provide culture care.

Research questions were:

1. In what ways do nursing faculty care expressions, patterns, and practices influence teaching culture care?

2. In what ways do worldview, culture and social structure, and environmental context influence nursing faculty teaching culture care?

3. Given the nature of the school of nursing/university culture, what influence does this have on nursing faculty teaching culture care?

4. In what ways does nursing faculty …

Becoming A Reviewer, Sandra Thomas

Sandra Thomas

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Faculty Wisdom As Teaching Culture Care Within The Indigenous Context Of The Southeastern United States, Sandra J. Mixer

Sandra J Mixer

This poster presents an ethnonursing research study guided by the culture care theory entitled Nursing Faculty Care, Expressions, Patterns, and Practices Related to Teaching Culture Care and conducted within the environmental context of urban and rural baccalaureate nursing programs in the Southeastern United States. The goal of the study was to discover faculty care that facilitated teaching students to provide culturally congruent and competent care. Four universal themes with universal and diverse patterns which supported the themes were discovered. The themes were faculty care as embedded in Christian religious values, beliefs, and practices; faculty teaching culture care without an organizing …