Madeline Leininger: Transcultural Nursing

As women’s role changed greatly in the 1950s, Madeline Leininger could have been ignited by her own culturally suppressed treatment, nonetheless she pioneered the nursing field into transcultural nursing. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the eight reasons why transcultural nursing is a necessary specialty according to Madeline Leininger. Furthermore, to provide in my own words the meaning of cultural diversity while showing its relationship within the nursing field and give examples of three ways culturally sensitive care is provided by this author.

Madeline Leininger believed transcultural nursing was a valuable nursing component because it communicates, educates, and establishes a forum to deliver culturally congruent care. These

One must be empathetic but not sympathetic, sensitive but aware of the environment. Inmates have the right to practice their cultural beliefs. As an inmate exercises their right to gender transform, this nurse addresses the inmate to the gender they identify with and conduct medical care sensitive to their process. Inmates who practice the religion Islam par take in Ramadan a holy month, they must fast from eating, drinking and use of oral medications from predawn to after sunset. As a nurse it is my obligation to educate the practicing inmate regarding fasting during Ramadan and administer medication in accordance of time frames allowed (Meyer, Pomeroy, Reid, & Zuniga, 2016). While inmates are entitled to privacy, due to close personal boundary spaces and safety of nurses, private medical information is delivered in the presence of trained correctional officers with training in patient inmate confidentiality. These three methods are not limited too the only methods of delivering culturally sensitive care by this author but do demonstrate my awareness of the importance of cultural diversity in