Nursing Theorist Grid
Madeleine Leininger’s theory is call The Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality. Because Leininger had degrees in nursing and anthropology, her theory had a combination of derivatives of both disciplines (Bibb, 2006). While working as a nurse in the 1950s, Leininger became disturbed by nurses who could not understand nor respect the culture variations. She then set out to bridge the knowledge gap between nursing and cultures.
Leininger became the authority on cultural diversity in healthcare. The key points of her theory include honoring a state of holistic well-being that is culturally defined, valued, and practical. Cultures include technology, religion, philosophy, kinships, socioeconomics, politics, and education.
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Definition
Applied to Nursing Practice
Applied to Nursing Education
Applied to Nursing Research
Person
Culture-dependent and holistic and sometimes includes families, groups, and communities
Nurses can establish individualized care plans and care by respecting and honoring the diversity of the patients.
Nurses are continually educated on transcultural nursing. In nursing school and in the workplace, cultural diversity is taught.
Continued research to increase the knowledge of the nurses to assess the “person” in different cultures.
Health
A state of well-being that is culturally defined, valued, and practiced
After appropriate nursing education has been done, nurses have to assess and respect the individual’s decisions on health. Everyone will not accept smoke cessation and weight loss as a part of health.
As we learn cultural health preferences, it is imperative that nurses pass this information on to other nurses. Employee in-services are important to pass on these diversities.
Continued research to increase the knowledge of the nurses to assess the idea of health in different cultures.
Nursing
A transcultural, humanistic, and