STANDARD IV: CULTURAL HEALTH PATTERNS
AND CARING PRACTICES
Rationale
The identification of caring and healing values, beliefs,
and practices used by individuals, families, or communities is
essential to guide health promotion, illness reduction, or optimal living with disability or death. Culture care refers to the
subjectively and objectively learned and transmitted values,
beliefs, and patterned life ways that assist, support, facilitate,
or enable another individual or group to maintain their well-
being and health, to improve their human condition and
life ways, or to deal with illness, handicaps, or death
(Leininger, 1991).
Process Criteria
a. The nurse synthesizes the information gathered into patterns
of health and caring.
b. The nurse confirms the patterns of health and caring that have
been gathered with an individual, family, or community.
c. The nurse documents the heal than
d. caring pattern sofan individual, family, or community.
Outcome Criteria
Knowledge
• Knowledge of the nursing process,
• Knowledge of pattern recognition.
Beliefs and Values
• Valuing an individual's, family's, or community's perspective on caring and healing.
Skills
• Ability to use critical and creative thinking about nursing and
healing,
• Recording an individual's, family's, or community's patterns
of health accurately.