Madeleine M. Leininger
PhD, LHD, DS, RN, CTN, FRCNA, FAAN, LL
Dr. Leininger, Professor
Emeritus, Wayne State University (Detroit), Adjunct Professor of UNMC (Omaha), Colleges of Nursing is the Founder and Leader of Transcultural Nursing and Leader of Human Care Theory Research. It was in the early 1950s Dr. Leininger saw a critical need to establish the new field of transcultural nursing as a formal area of study and practice. Then in 1974, she spearheaded establishing the Transcultural Nursing Society as the official organization with annual trans-world conventions with chapters of the society. Later, in 1978 the National Research Caring Conferences that became the International Caring Association in 1987. She also established the Journal of Transcultural Nursing and served as editor from 1989-1995. In addition, she initiated and promoted worldwide certification of transcultural nurses (CTN) for client safety and knowledgeable care for people of diverse cultures.
Professor Leininger was Dean of the Schools of Nursing at the University of Washington and the University of Utah. She was the first full-time President of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and one of the first members of the American Academy of Nursing in 1975. Recently, she was honored as a Living Legend by the Academy. She has received many honors from academic and other organizations and institutions in the United States and overseas.
She is the author and editor of over 28 books and over 200 published articles. She has given approximately 1,800 keynote and general public lectures in the USA and overseas. She was the first graduate professional nurse to pursue a PhD in anthropology in the 1950s and conducted the first transcultural nursing research study in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. Since then she has studied over 15 Western and non-Western cultures. She remains active as a transcultural researcher, theorist, and consultant with several organizations worldwide.
During her past 50 years in academe, she has taught over 30,000 nursing students and students from other disciplines in her areas of expertise namely transcultural nursing, health care, globalization of health care, qualitative research methods, human caring, the theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, cultures of nursing and medicine, structure of cultural organizations, and the future of nursing and health care. Dr. Leininger's theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality with her well known Sunrise Model and her ethnonursing research method continue to be used worldwide as the major holistic and yet particularistic theory to establish the transcultural nursing discipline and profession as the new direction for the future. This theory was the first cultural care nursing theory and the first ethnonursing research method in nursing. While the theory was slow to take hold due to nurses' lack of knowledge about cultures and transcultural care phenomena, it has gained significance worldwide. Dr. Leininger was the first in the 1960s to coin the concept "culturally congruent care" which was the goal of the Theory of Culture Care, and today the concept is being used globally. Her Culture Care Theory is being taught in many nursing schools and used in general interdisciplinary health professional schools and community agencies. It is also used for culturalogical assessments to transform health care systems from largely unicultural to multicultural practices. Canada, Finland, Sweden, Australia, the United States, Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean have discovered the importance of the culture care theory to arrive at holistic and comprehensive care knowledge to guide nursing practices. Today the transcultural nursing and health care movement is viewed by many as one of the most significant and major breakthroughs of the 20th Century and essential for future health care practices.
A few definitive and current references on the Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory and with the ethnonursing method and research findings can be found in the following sources and in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing. In addition, there are over 100 masters theses and PhD nursing dissertations that provide fresh insights about the nature, focus, and outcome benefits of transcultural nursing. Presently Dr. Leininger resides in Omaha, Nebraska and remains active as a worldwide transcultural nursing lecturer, visiting professor, consultant, theorist, researcher, scholarly critic, and writer.
Leininger Videos
Dr. Leininger's DVD Videos are now available for online viewing on the
Leininger Website. The series uses FLASH video technology, a method that is accessible for most computers. A high-speed internet connection is desirable to view these videos.
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Dr. Leininger has allowed the first five minutes of her video "The Life Career of Leininger" to be viewed here free of charge.
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The Life Career of Leininger
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