• Care is to assist others with real or anticipated needs in an effort to
improve a human condition of concern or to face death.
• Caring is an action or activity directed towards providing care.
• Culture refers to learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs,
norms, and lifeways of a specific individual or group that guide their
thinking, decisions, actions, and patterned ways of living.
• Cultural care refers to multiple aspects of culture that influence and enable
a person or group to improve their human condition or to deal
with illness or death.
• Cultural care diversity refers to the differences in meanings, values, or acceptable
modes of care within or between different groups of people.
• Cultural care universality refers to common care or similar meanings that
are evident among many cultures.
• Nursing is a learned profession with a disciplined focused on care
phenomena.
• Worldview refers to the way people tend to look at the world or universe
in creating a personal view of what life is about.
• Cultural and social structure dimensions include factors related to religion,
social structure, political/legal concerns, economics, educational patterns,
the use of technologies, cultural values, and ethnohistory that influence
cultural responses of human beings within a cultural context.
• Health refers to a state of well-being that is culturally defined and valued
by a designated culture.
• Cultural care preservation or maintenance refers to nursing care activities
that help people of particular cultures to retain and use core cultural
care values related to healthcare concerns or conditions.
• Cultural care accommodation or negotiation refers to creative nursing actions
that help people of a particular culture adapt to or negotiate with others
in the healthcare community in an effort to attain the shared goal
of an optimal health outcome for client(s) of a designated culture.