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J N Giger

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1999

Will you fit if you move to a job in another culture?

In today's health care environment, many health care managers choose to move to a new setting. Because environments vary from setting to setting, a manager who plans to move needs to evaluate potential "fit" in the new locality. An evaluation of "fit" includes an assessment of both the job culture and persons in the environment. The Giger-Davidhizar transcultural assessment model provides a model for evaluating a new job culture.

Acculturation↗
PubMed1999

Helping others when you are hurting: strategies for delivering quality care while dealing with personal bereavement.

Nurse managers are in a strategic position to assist clients, their family members, and other staff in dealing with normal grief and to provide additional assistance if the grief becomes complicated. A variety of strategies can be used by the nurse to assist individuals through the grief process. In some cases, the nurse must deal with personal grief while simultaneously helping others. This article addresses useful strategies for nurses to enhance the delivery of quality care while dealing with personal loss and grief.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1998

Death, dying and grief in a transcultural context: application of the Giger and Davidhizar assessment model.

One of the most challenging aspects of death education and grief counseling is providing care and education that is relevant to the cultural, racial, and ethnic needs of the client. Often appropriate responses are difficult due to the lack of a relevant model; otherwise practitioners tend to operate from facts collected in isolation. This article reports on an assessment model originally developed in nursing by Giger and Davidhizar and discusses its potential use in providing culturally relevant death education and grief counseling.

Attitude to Death↗
PubMed1998

Nursing clients of Greek ethnicity at home.

The home healthcare nurse who cares for persons with Greek ancestry should be aware of their unique cultural heritage. The nurse should also be aware that Greek people throughout the world are proud and independent, valuing their religious faith and practices, good health, education, and success. Care should be designed to include appreciation of traditions and customs that these clients may have. The nurse should make a special effort to develop trust with the Greek client and family members in order to effectively implement culturally competent healthcare.

Community Health Nursing↗
PubMed1998

Growing older is not what it used to be.

Growing old is not what it used to be. Many self-care actions can enhance one's chance of growing old without illness or disease. This necessitates preparing for old age while one is young. Preparation for second adulthood can vastly improve physical and emotional health in old age. It is important that nurses and other health care professionals teach health promotion strategies to persons at all ages in order to assist individuals to live life to its fullest throughout their lifetime.

Aged↗
PubMed1998

Recognizing abuse in culturally diverse clients.

Abuse is a major problem in American society. The problem of abuse among ethnically diverse persons is an area about which most health care professionals know little. This article describes the Giger-Davidhizar Model of Transcultural Assessment as a tool of assessment of the client who is abused. Use of a framework for assessment can enable more culturally competent care to be delivered.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1998

Time-bound madness.

The concept of the passage of time is familiar to most people regardless of ethnic heritage. However, some persons are more time-bound than others. This article discusses the qualities of time-bound individuals and outlines strategies for responding to time-bound madness.

Cultural Characteristics↗
PubMed1998

A patient classification system for the chronic psychiatric patient.

Classification of chronic psychiatric patients to determine staffing needs is an emerging issue confronting many psychiatric nurses. This paper follows the development of a patient classification system for chronic psychiatric patients in the United States. Few tools are available and those cited in the literature tend to report minimal validity and reliability and lack applicability to the setting or for the purpose desired. The tool demonstrated use and acceptance by nurses and was found to meet the comprehensive needs of patients it was designed to serve.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1998

Recognizing the child with obsessive defiant disorder.

Nurses may find themselves in a home situation where a child demonstrates characteristics of a child with ODD. While the nurse is not in the home to provide therapy for the child, it may be evident that the parents need help in determining an appropriate plan of action. While it is not the role of the nurse to diagnose the child, the nurse who is aware of the symptoms of ODD may play a very significant role in assisting the parents in dealing therapeutically with the child.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1998

When your patient uses denial.

There are may factors to consider when denial is encountered in a patient situation. Denial is a simple concept but is complicated by ego-maintaining mechanisms that denial may produce. It is important to evaluate each individual situation in order to identify suitable approaches for the situation. Denial may not be something that the nurse should take away since it can serve an important balancing function between depression and wellness.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1997

The interview that wins the job.

Obtaining a nursing position is often the first challenge for the graduate nurse. Understanding the interview process and making a plan that will ensure the graduate is placed in the best possible light is important for success in the interview process. This paper discusses getting ready for the interview, setting up the interview, dressing for the interview, the actual interview and following up the interview. Adherence to these guidelines can facilitate the graduate's success in obtaining the desired position.

Humans↗
PubMed1997

When your employee forgets who the boss is.

Managers confront many types of behavior in the workplace. One interpersonal problem that presents an unusual challenge to the manager is the employee who appears to "forget who the boss is." This article addresses this unusual employee-manager problem by first describing the characteristics and dynamics of the behavior and then providing guidelines for responding to this problematic behavior.

Behavior Therapy↗
PubMed1997

When change is a must.

Change is a significant concept in health care. It is critical that health care professionals understand change dynamics and implement strategies to adapt to the changes in the modern workplace.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1997

When touch is not the best approach.

Health care professionals have long believed in the value of nonverbal components of communication and the highly significant roles such factors as distance, space, and touch can play in therapeutic relationships. The value of touch is not appreciated by all health care professionals or considered appropriate or desirable by some patients. While touch has been described as the most important of all the senses, the astute professional must be cognizant of the times when touch should not be used.

Attitude to Health↗
PubMed1997

Canadian transcultural nursing: applying the Giger and Davidhizar model.

Giger and Davidhizar (1995) provide a model for assessing clients from differing cultures in order to be aware of differences and to plan appropriate strategies. This model is appropriate for use with groups of individuals regardless of culture and is particularly useful and appropriate in Canada where society is a mixture of people from different ethnic backgrounds, different political and religious persuasions, and different aspirations. This paper presents an overview of the cultural diversity among Canadians and then applies the model as an assessment tool that can be used by Canadian nurses.

Adolescent↗