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Integrating Navajo Tradition into Maternal‐Child Nursing
Author(s) -
Satz Karen J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0363-2792
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1982.tb01622.x
Subject(s) - navajo , reservation , citation , nursing , child health , psychology , sociology , medicine , library science , linguistics , pediatrics , political science , law , philosophy , computer science
Karen J. Satz, R.N., M.S. is a Nurse Practitioner in maternal and child health on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. standing and incorporating that culture’s beliefs, values, and attitudes into their nursing care is an essential component of quality health care. Nurses on the Navajo Ki*servirtion are practicing within a distinct cultural group. Although many cultural groups coexist in the United States, few are isolated on 25,000 square miles of sparsely populated, and land. This isolation, combined with their language barrier, enables many Navajo people to retain traditional life-styles and beliefs, which have not been greatly influenced by the surrounding society. Nurses wishing to exert an effective influence on health in this or any cultural group must learn to incorporate modern health care practices with those of the subculture. The attachment process among this cultural group, the Navajo. will be explored below. and siiqgvsticms will he mntlc. t o w m l t I I C ~ more successful integration of tradition a1 practices with modern parent-child health practices.