Nursing Theorist Madeleine Leininger Madeleine Leininger’s groundbreaking work in the field of cultural care transformed the nursing profession and laid groundwork in the deliverance of care that holds true today. Leininger was zealous in her pursuit to deliver care that would be effective and not compromise one’s belief system. Leininger’s theory promoted change in nursing practice by rationalizing an individualized care system. By caring, she brought about optimal healing in a culturally diverse world. The conception of caring was acquired early in her nursing career (Leininger, 1991). As it became, evidently, clear that care and its’ deliverance to an unknown knowledge based on culture, Leininger began to explore and identify nursing’s
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The Sunrise Enabler illustrates Leininger’s theory. It aides to ascertain cultural awareness. It’s representative of promise to new beginnings of the nursing practice.
The model shows factors such as (1) technological, (2) religious and philosophical, (3) kinship and social, (4) cultural values and life ways, (5) political and legal, (6) economic, and (7) educational, forming sunrays that influence individuals, families, and groups in health and illness (Leininger and McFarland, 2006, p. 356) According to Leininger (1991), different variables are set in common configuration factors and are learned. Studies are universal and non distinctive from a multi-dimensional approach. The model plays an intricate factor in assessment and care plan of a diverse people. Transcultural nursing has been a guided force in the field of nursing, research, and practice in this century. It stands as a domineering factor to be proven as an even greater potential as the theory continues to be a commanding force in health care that takes us through the third millennium (Leininger and McFarland, 2006).
Nursing Metaparadigm All nursing theories have some component of the nursing paradigm. Although Leininger did not believe in the standard nursing metaparadigm, she revised the following components to meet higher standards of …show more content…
Although, evidenced based practice had yet to be introduced, Leininger introduced a body of evidence that would change the delivery of care, cross-culturally as we would come to know and apply safely without prejudice. By integrating her knowledge and expertise in anthropology with her nursing base practice, Leininger revolutionized applied nursing care. The elements founded to impact professional nursing as a whole would reshape and redefine nursing care judgment and develop culturally-competent nurses. Caring is the only way to optimize healing in a socially divided world. By respecting and dispersing care correspondingly, upon adaptation to culture without bias, nurses protect the healing solutions on an individualized base not predetermined of
The Sunrise Enabler illustrates Leininger’s theory. It aides to ascertain cultural awareness. It’s representative of promise to new beginnings of the nursing practice.
The model shows factors such as (1) technological, (2) religious and philosophical, (3) kinship and social, (4) cultural values and life ways, (5) political and legal, (6) economic, and (7) educational, forming sunrays that influence individuals, families, and groups in health and illness (Leininger and McFarland, 2006, p. 356) According to Leininger (1991), different variables are set in common configuration factors and are learned. Studies are universal and non distinctive from a multi-dimensional approach. The model plays an intricate factor in assessment and care plan of a diverse people. Transcultural nursing has been a guided force in the field of nursing, research, and practice in this century. It stands as a domineering factor to be proven as an even greater potential as the theory continues to be a commanding force in health care that takes us through the third millennium (Leininger and McFarland, 2006).
Nursing Metaparadigm All nursing theories have some component of the nursing paradigm. Although Leininger did not believe in the standard nursing metaparadigm, she revised the following components to meet higher standards of …show more content…
Although, evidenced based practice had yet to be introduced, Leininger introduced a body of evidence that would change the delivery of care, cross-culturally as we would come to know and apply safely without prejudice. By integrating her knowledge and expertise in anthropology with her nursing base practice, Leininger revolutionized applied nursing care. The elements founded to impact professional nursing as a whole would reshape and redefine nursing care judgment and develop culturally-competent nurses. Caring is the only way to optimize healing in a socially divided world. By respecting and dispersing care correspondingly, upon adaptation to culture without bias, nurses protect the healing solutions on an individualized base not predetermined of