Dr. Madeleine Leininger Model
Bowie State Univerity
NURS-430V

Sandra White
October 03, 2015

Dr. Madeleine Leininger
BRIEF OVERVIEW
According to Creasia&Friberg, 2011, Nursing theories are composed of Concepts and propositions that characterize the central occurrences of interest to nursing discipline to include: person, environment, health /illness, and nursing. Dr. Madeline Leininger has drawn from a background in cultural and social anthropology and applied it to her model which is now known as Leininger’s Cultural Care Theory. The theory was initiated from clinical experiences recognizing that culture and a holistic concept was the missing link in nursing knowledge and practice (Leininger, 1988). This presentation will take a look at how person, environment, health/illness, and nursing are greatly affected by different cultures and subcultures. Nurses are responsible for taking care of not only our own communities, but an ever-growing world around us. The ultimate goal of this theory is to provide culturally appropriate nursing care (Leininger, 1988).
BACKGROUND OF THEORIST MODEL
Dr. MadeleineLeiningeris called “a living legend”. She was born in Sutton, Nebraska in July 13, 1925. As a Nurse, anthropologist, teacher, mentor and visionary she became the founder of the Transcultural Nursing Movement. She was the one who proclaimed that “the world was fast becoming a global community and nurses needed to be able to recognize it and deliver culturally competent care”. (Leininger , 1988)
Dr. Leininger earned her nursing diploma from St.Anthony's Hospital School of Nursing, Denver, Colorado. In 1950, she received a B.S. from Benedictine College in in Atchison, Kansas and obtained her M.S. in mental health from Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. in 1954. Years later, in 1965, she was awarded a PhD in cultural and social