Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger (born July 13, 1925 in Sutton , Nebraska , USA ; † August 10, 2012 in Omaha , Nebraska) was a professor of nursing who made a name for herself as a nursing theorist in the field of research into intercultural and transcultural nursing Has.
biography
Madeleine Leininger began her nurse career at the St. Anthony's School of Nursing in Denver and then worked in the Cadet Corps. In 1950 she received a BS in biology with minor subjects in philosophy and humanistics. She worked as a teaching nurse and as a station manager. During this time she opened a new psychiatric department as director of nursing in Omaha.
In 1954, she received her Masters in Psychiatric Nursing and started the first clinical training program in psychiatric nursing. In 1959, Leininger received his doctorate with a focus on cultural and psychological anthropology. She conducted ethnographic and ethno-nurturing studies with the Gadsup people in New Guinea, where she lived for almost two years. The results of these studies helped her develop her nursing theory ; This laid the foundation for the development of the theory of cultural care. As a professor of nursing and anthropology at the University of Colorado, she gave the first lecture on transcultural nursing in 1966.
In 1968 she introduced the Council on Nursing and Anthropology (CONAA) to the American Anthropological Association. In 1974 she initiated master's and doctoral programs in transcultural nursing at the university.
Madeleine Leininger has studied at least 12 important cultures and carried out ethnographic and ethno-nurturing research. Reports from doctoral students and colleagues from nearly 60 different cultures were incorporated into the development of the theory.
Transcultural care
The care model of transcultural care is based on the care theory published in 1966 by Leininger. In her theory, cultural dimensions of human care , she lays the basis for the model, also known as culture care or intercultural care , that every person, both cared for and caregivers, as a holistic being shaped by their culture and values and norms of their social environment. He has the need to live, interact and be treated according to these ideas.
Works
- Nursing and Anthropology. Two Worlds to Blend , New York, 1970.
- Transcultural Nursing. Concepts, Theories and Practices , New York, 1978.
- Culture care diversity and universality. A theory of nursing . National League for Nursing Press, New York 1991, ISBN 0-88737-519-7 .
- Cultural dimensions of human care , Lambertus-Verlag Freiburg / B. 1998, ISBN 3-7841-0823-7 .
- with Susanna Alban and Cheryl L. Reynolds: Multikulturelle Pflege , Urban and Fischer, Munich Jena 2000, ISBN 3-437-26360-9 .
literature
- Dagmar Domenig (Ed.): Transcultural Competence. Handbook for Nursing, Health and Social Professions . Hans Huber Verlag, Bern
- Ann Marriner-Tomey: Nursing Theorists and Their Works . Recom Verlag, Basel 1992, ISBN 3-315-00082-4
- Charlotte Uzarewicz et al. a. (Ed.): Transkulturelle Pflege , Curara special volume 10, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86135-564-7 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leininger, Madeleine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biologist, professor of nursing and nursing scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sutton , Nebraska, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 2012 |
| Place of death | Omaha , Nebraska, United States |