Essential features of the transcultural nursing theory by Madeleine Leininger

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Nursing Science - Nursing Management, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, language: English, abstract: Madeleine Leininger is the founder of transcultural nursing theory. This paper is focused on the essential feature of her theory. The discussion provided is to show how the theory was developed and its evolvement in the past decades. She is known mostly because of her theory which has impacted the clinical settings. Her theory came up from the clinical experience recognizing that culture was a missing link in the nursing knowledge and practice.