Culture Care Theory
Culture Care Theory
Culture Care Theory
Dileep Kumar
MSc. N Student
College of Nursing, JPMC, Karachi
Objectives
Today’s my presentation objectives are to;
• Introduce the Theorist Madeleine Leininger
• Define culture care theory and Sun Rise model
• List the purpose and goals of the culture care
theory
• Define major assumptions of culture care theory
• Describe the Metaparadigm of theory
• Discuss about the nursing implications of theory
Credentials & Background of Theorist
• Madeleine Leininger is a Founder of Transcultural Nursing
and Human Care Theory
• First professional Nurse with graduate preparation in nursing
to hold a PhD
• Was born in Sutton, Nebraska in 1920
• 1948 Diploma in Nursing, Was in US army Nurse corps, while
pursuing the basic nursing program
• 1950 BS in Biological Sciences
• 1954 obtained master degree in psychiatric nursing
• Initiated and directed the 1st Graduated Nursing Program in
Psychiatric Nursing at University of Cincinnati
Credentials & Background of Theorist
• 1966 offered 1st course in Transcultural Nursing in
University of Colorado
• 1969 appointed as Dean and Professor of Nursing and
Lecturer in Anthropology
• Studied 14 major cultures in depth and has had experience
with many different additional cultures.
• Authored or edited more than 27 books
• Published more than 200 articles and 45 chapters plus
numerous research projects focused on transcultural
nursing, human care and health phenomena.
• 1974, initiated National Transcultural Nursing Society org:
• 1989, initiated Journal of Transcultural Nursing
Her other Areas of Interest
Besides transcultural nursing with care as a
central focus her other areas of interest are;
• Comparative education and administration
• Nursing theories
• Politics
• Ethical dilemmas of nursing and health care
• Qualitative research methods
• Future of nursing and health care
• Nursing leadership
Theoretical sources
• Derived from disciplines of anthropology and nursing but
is reformulated to be transcultural nursing with human care
perspective
• She has defined the transcultural nursing as a major area of
nursing that focuses on a comparative study and analysis of
different cultures and subcultures in the world with respect
to their caring values, expressions, and health-illness
beliefs and pattern of behavior with the goal to develop a
scientific and humanistic knowledge to provide culture
specific and/or culture universal nursing care practice.
Development of the theory
• Developed in the mid-1950s and early 1960s.
• Developed particularly to discover the meanings and ways
to give care to people who have different values and life
ways.
• Designed to guide nurses to provide nursing care that fits
with those that are being cared for.
• Culture Care theory not only focuses on nurse-client
interaction but the focus also includes care for families,
groups, communities, cultures and institutions.
The Theory
Culture Care: Diversity and Universality
• Focuses on describing, explaining and predicting
nursing similarities and differences focused primarily
on human care and caring in human cultures.
• The Culture Care Diversity & Universality theory
does not focus on medical symptoms, disease entities
or treatments.
• It is instead focused on those methods of approach to
care that means something to the people to whom the
care is given.
Central Purpose of the Theory
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