Exploring Madeleine Leininger’s Transcultural Nursing Theory

Exploring Madeleine Leininger’s Transcultural Nursing Theory

Nursing is a professional discipline and involves various theories that were conceptualized by theorists. Nursing theory comprises of a set of concepts relationships, definitions and assumptions or propositions that are got from nursing models or other disciplines .the theory projects a systematic and purposive view of phenomena through designing particular interrelationships among these concepts purposely for describing, explaining or prescribing. Madeleine Leininger contributed to the nursing theories by coming up with the Transcultural nursing, culture-care theory.

Madeleine Leininger states that the essence of nursing is care which is also its dominant, unifying and distinctive feature. She states that there can never be…