{"id":47443,"date":"2001-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2001\/05\/21\/michigan-university-honors-nebraskan-founder-of-transculturalnursing-at-dedication-of-national-office\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:52:25","slug":"michigan-university-honors-nebraskan-founder-of-transculturalnursing-at-dedication-of-national-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2001\/05\/21\/michigan-university-honors-nebraskan-founder-of-transculturalnursing-at-dedication-of-national-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan University Honors Nebraskan, Founder of Transcultural\n\nNursing At Dedication of National Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madeleine Leininger, Ph.D., reached retirement age more than 10 years<\/p>\n

ago. Retirement? No way.<\/p>\n

With as much energy as a 25-year-old, she is motivated by her passion<\/p>\n

for transcultural nursing and humanistic caring.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leininger was honored earlier this month at a ribbon-cutting and<\/p>\n

dedication of the national Transcultural Nursing Office in the College<\/p>\n

of Nursing and Health located at Madonna University in Livonia, Mich. The<\/p>\n

Transcultural Nursing Society dedicated the office, which was originally<\/p>\n

established in 1974, with the help of a donor drive.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leininger, an adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska Medical<\/p>\n

Center College of Nursing, is recognized as the founder and international<\/p>\n

leader of transcultural nursing, the study and practice of providing culturally<\/p>\n

congruent care for people of diverse cultures.<\/p>\n

The office will serve as a worldwide communications center for nurses<\/p>\n

interested in developments in education, research, consultation and practice<\/p>\n

of transcultural nursing, Dr. Leininger said. It also will be the business<\/p>\n

center and home for the society and for board of trustee meetings and conferences,<\/p>\n

as well as a place for nurses from diverse cultures to exchange and debate<\/p>\n

ideas.<\/p>\n

The office has a dedicated library of historical and electronic documents<\/p>\n

of transcultural nursing from the past 27 years and a special collection<\/p>\n

of Dr. Leiningers work since the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leininger is a highly visionary leader who has been way ahead of<\/p>\n

the times and especially to envision the critical need to prepare nurses,<\/p>\n

generate research and practice a new research-based body of knowledge,<\/p>\n

said Mary Wawrzynski, Ph.D., dean of the Madonna University College of<\/p>\n

Nursing and Health.<\/p>\n

Certification of transcultural nurses also will be facilitated through<\/p>\n

the office, Dr. Leininger said.<\/p>\n

“The office was a wonderful dream come true, Leininger said. It has<\/p>\n

been much needed with the rapidly growing demand for culturally-competent<\/p>\n

transcultural nursing care practices. The office is of great significance<\/p>\n

for members and non-members worldwide trying to contribute to health care<\/p>\n

with diverse cultures.<\/p>\n

As part of the dedication activities, about 150 faculty, students and<\/p>\n

colleagues also attended a lecture given by Dr. Leininger.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leininger, a nurse and anthropologist, is a native of Sutton, Neb.,<\/p>\n

who began her career in the 1960s after living and working two years in<\/p>\n

the Eastern Highlands of Papua, New Guinea.<\/p>\n

She has long held the view that nurses and health disciplines need to<\/p>\n

establish by 2020,  educational programs and culturally competent<\/p>\n

care practices to clients of diverse cultures. Dr. Leininger and her colleagues<\/p>\n

have studied about 100 cultures worldwide and have established transcultural<\/p>\n

nursing courses worldwide.<\/p>\n

Transcultural nursing is when nurses use research-based knowledge and<\/p>\n

skills in the most creative, compassionate and sensitive ways to serve<\/p>\n

people of diverse or similar cultures, Dr. Leininger said. If we dont<\/p>\n

provide health care that is sensitive and congruent with the patients<\/p>\n

culture, we can expect our services may not be effective and will be rejected,<\/p>\n

avoided, or even destructive to them.<\/p>\n

Since launching the field in the mid-1950s, Dr. Leininger also has coined<\/p>\n

the terms culturally competent and culturally congruent care in the<\/p>\n

1960s which have recently been adopted by federal agencies, universities,<\/p>\n

therapeutic health centers and accrediting agencies.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leininger, emeritus professor of nursing and anthropology at Wayne<\/p>\n

State University in Detroit, remains active as a lecturer, consultant,<\/p>\n

theorist and author. She has served as dean and professor of nursing at<\/p>\n

the University of Washington and University of Utah and director of three<\/p>\n

university research centers.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leininger was the first full-time president of the American Association<\/p>\n

of Colleges of Nursing and founder of the Transcultural Nursing Society<\/p>\n

and Human Care Theory and Research Organization. She is the author of 27<\/p>\n

books, has published more than 200 articles and given more than 1,500 lectures<\/p>\n

worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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