Madeleine

leininger
Transcultural Nursing (1925 - 2012)

Presented by Beja, Escobar, Obsioma

 Objectives
To know who Madeleine Leininger is
Learn and understand her theory
To find the relation of the theory to the nursing paradigms
To identify the importance of her theory to the aspiring nurses
 overview
Brief Background
Awards & Honors
Educational Background
Introduction of Theorist
Madeleine M. Leininger
FOUNDER OF TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
AND A LEADER IN TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
AND HUMAN CARE THEORY.
 Brief background
01 She lived on a farm with her four brothers and

1925 Madeleine Leininger was born on July 13, 1925, sisters and graduated from Sutton High School.
in Sutton, Nebraska.

02
After graduation from Sutton High, she was in the
U.S. Army Nursing Corps while pursuing a basic
nursing program.

2012
On August 10th, 2012, Leininger passed
away at her home in Omaha, Nebraska.
She was buried in Sutton’s Calvary
Cemetery.

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 Awards & HONORS
1960 1998
Leininger was awarded a National League of Nursing Living Legendby the American Academy of Nursing and
Fellowship for fieldwork in the Eastern Highlands of New Distinguished Fellow, Royal College of Nursing in Australia.
Guinea.

1983
President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Board of Leininger Transcultural Nursing Award
Governors Distinguished Faculty Award, and the Gershenson
Research Fellowship Award.
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BACKGROUND
Got her master’s degree in psychiatric nursing from the
1954 Catholic University of America in Washington,DC

1960 Wrote the first basic psychiatric nursing texts entitled, “Basic
Psychiatric Concepts in Nursing” in 11 languages.

1950s & 1960's She identified the common areas of theory

interests and research foci between
disciplines of nursing and anthropology

1966 First transcultural nursing course was offered at the

University of Colorado

1980 Launched the Journal of transcultural nursing

 Leininger’s Transcultural
Nursing Theory
Culture Care Theory

Madeleine Leininger involves knowing and understanding

different cultures concerning nursing and health-illness caring
practices, beliefs, and values to provide meaningful and
efficacious nursing care services to people’s cultural values
health-illness context.

Different cultures have different caring

behaviors and different health and illness
values, beliefs, and patterns of behaviors.
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nursing theory
01 Nursing 02 Person
Nursing is a learned experience and discipline Seen to be capable of being caring about the
that focuses on human care phenomena and needs, health, and ability of others.
behaviors in order to assist, support, facilitate,
and help individuals to maintain or regain their
health in ways that are culturally appropriate
and beneficial.
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03 Health
A culturally defined, valued, and practiced aspect
of health. It represents an individuals’ ability to
fulfill their daily role activities in culturally
articulated, useful, an patterned lifeways.
04 Environment
Environment in Madeleine’s context, an event
that lends meaning to human expressions,
interpretations, and social interactions in specific
physical, ecological, and cultural contexts.
care theory
Broad Holistic Nursing Theory
It takes into account the totality and holistic
culture
perspective of human life and existence.
Social Structure Factors
Worldview
Cultural History and Values
Environmental Context
Language Expressions
Folk and Professional Care Patterns

Purpose and Goal

To discover human care diversities in relation to
the holistic perspective, and ways to provide
culturally congruent care with people of various
cultures to maintain or regain their health, or
face death in a culturally appropriate way.
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Hypothesis
Ethnonursing research method and the
enablers showed the fit between the theory
and the method
Culture Care theory is greatly valued
worldwide.
The theory continues to guide the building
of nursing knowledge.
Thank
You!
Presented by Beja, Escobar, Obsioma