Together the nurse and the client creatively design a new or different
care lifestyle for the health or well-being of the client. This mode requires
the use of both generic and professional knowledge and ways to
fit such diverse ideas into nursing care actions and goals. Care knowledge
and skill are often repatterned for the best interest of the
clients…Thus all care modalities require coparticipation of the nurse and clients
(consumers) working together to identify, plan, implement, and evaluate each
caring mode for culturally congruent nursing care. These modes can stimulate
nurses to design nursing actions and decisions using new knowl-
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edge and culturally based ways to provide meaningful and satisfying
wholistic care to individuals, groups or institutions (Leininger, 1991, p. 44).