Transcultural nursing care/Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory.

Quynh Doan
SCF- RN-BSN progrgram

•Born in Sutton, Nebraska on July 13, 1925
•received her diploma in nursing from St. Anthony’s School of Nursing in Denver, Colorado in 1948 In 1950
•She earned her BS from St. Scholastica (Benedictine College) in Atchison, Kansas
•She earned an M.S. in psychiatric and mental health nursing from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1954.
•She received her Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Washington in 1965 Referrence
•Parker, M. E. (2005). Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice. Philadelphia: F.A.

Madeleine M. Leininger

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•Madeliene Leininger recognized that the congruent of care and culture was the missing link in nursing. What lead her to recognized this phenomenon?

•References
•Parker, M. E. (2005). Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice. Philadelphia: F.A. Factors that shape the theorist

•The main focus of cultural care frameworks is to assist nurses to avoid ethnocentric assessments, so that they can provide care that is responsive to the recipient’s cultural perspective. (Baker 1997.) Madeliene Leininger Loading... •It is the only theory explicitly focused on the close interrelationships of culture and care on well-being, health, illness, and death.
•It is most holistic and multidimensional. •The theory focused on comparative culture care. •This theory include cultural diversity — “differences between and among different cultures — and cultural universality — commonalities or similarities in different cultures”
Major focuses of the Transcultural Nursing/ Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory is…..
(Leininger, JTN, July 2002 p. 189)

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