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MADELEINE LEININGER “Caring is the essence of nursing” Madeleine Leininger

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Madeleine Leininger. “Caring is the essence of nursing” Madeleine Leininger. Answering her calling…. During her career with the US Army Nurse Corps, she pursues her degree in Nursing and becomes the first to graduate the PhD program. Dr. Leininger packed up and headed to New Guinea. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Madeleine Leininger

Madeleine LeiningerCaring is the essence of nursing Madeleine Leininger

I chose nursing theorist Madeleine Leininger was born July 13th 1925 and had four brothers and four sisters. As a farm girl, she had grand aspirations to make a difference and once graduated from high school, she joined the US Army Nursing Corps. Dr. Leininger was my ideal choice because of her stringent faith in guiding her to help others and to reach out to those who once lived around the world who are now in our own backyard. Nursing today is transcultural and full of diversity and without Dr. Leiningers hard work, we may still be trapped in a world where we only recognize the needs of people at face value than as a whole. Every day is a cultural learning experience and Im thankful that Dr. Leininger open the doors to once a closed minded people so that our care can be precise and caring beyond compare!1Answering her callingDuring her career with the US Army Nurse Corps, she pursues her degree in Nursing and becomes the first to graduate the PhD program

During her career in the US Army Nursing Corps while attending St. Anthonys School of Nursing in Denver, Colorado, then received her BS. She then earned her specialty in psychiatric/mental health from Catholic University in Washington DC. She was the very first graduate in her nursing program to earn a PhD! 2Dr. Leininger packed up and headed to New GuineaIt wasnt hard for Dr. Leininger to know that her expertise was needing to be refined in order to bring home the need for transcultural nursing. She spent a lot of time with the Gadsup tribe in New Guinea to learn how to obtain knowledge on providing health care to those of a different culture.

During the 1950s, Dr. Leininger worked in a child guidance home realizing that the most common thread that the children shared dealt with their cultural differences and how she felt that no one was really examining the impact culture has on children or a community in the health profession. It was then that Dr. Leininger decided to pack up and move to New Guinea to the Gadsup tribe and combine her work skills with her education, thus the birth of, Transcultural nursing and the first human care theorist!

3Madeleine on a mission and becomes involved in higher education to pursue her targetDr. Leininger recognized the need for change in the medical community and what better way than to head up the department of education herself. She began with a deanship of nursing at the University of Colorado, then was the director of the doctoral and transcultural nursing program at the University of Washington, to finally, in 1981, heading to Wayne State University as a professor, retiring in 1995.

So she becomes the Dean of Nursing at the University of Colorado and delves into the lecturing of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Dr. Leininger pursued the University of Utah and was the Director of the Doctoral and Transcultural Nursing Program. She retired in 1995 from Wayne State University where she was a world renowned professor.4Madeleinessunrise modelDr. Leiningers idea of holistic care that is culturally congruent.

Influences of culture in regards to holistic health/illness/death related to the patterns of decision making and actions are in the first break of the sunrise model, lending itself to the environment which contains: religion, social, economic, education, political, and technological factors. The upper part of the sunrise model is the world view on a 3 dimensional scale. 5Dr. Leiningers Transcultural accomplishmentsFounded the society in 1974Established the caring convention in 1978Visiting scholar to over 70 UniversitysWrote and published 25 booksPublished over 200 articlesDeveloped a software programLectured around the worldHas given over 850 keynote speeches

Dr. Leiningers accomplishments go on and on. She is considered the mother of the transcultural nursing and truly dedicated her life to directly impacting people all over the world by advancing their knowledge in caring and evolving that care on an international level. 6Dr. Leininger positively impacted our world

WWII was where Dr. Leininger found that caring for those without consideration for ones culture negatively impacted their mortality. She set the stage to aggressively make the change to education and create a pathway to recognizing and accepting cultural diversity, which continues to this day. Dr. Leiningers firm belief in her faith was her stronghold to affirm that all human beings are capable of caring for not only the person, but the welfare of that person as a collective whole.

What a concept! Caring for a community as a whole! Dr. Leininger spent years developing and creating a pathway for healthcare providers to enhance the care and outcomes of those of different cultures and ethnicity. She knew that this concept was not an old one, but one that has existed, but left unshaped until WWII where she directly saw the need to integrate culture in order to increase mortality amongst those affected by war. We are one world, but we are not one people and Dr. Leininger used her faith to guide her to ultimate success. She died August 10, 2012 leaving behind great works and a huge legacy.7REREFERENCES

http://www.nurses.info/nursing_theory_midrange_theories_leininger_madeleine.htm

http://www.cultural-competence-project.org/en/leininger.htm

http://nursinglibrary.info/nursing-theories/madeleine-leininger/

http://suttonhistoricalsociety.blogspot.com/2012/12/madeleine-leininger-great-woman-with.html