Leininger's Works

• Opened a Psychiatric Nursing service and educational program at Creighton University in Omaha, NE in 1950.
• Served as Associate Professor of Nursing and Director of the Graduate Program in Psychiatric Nursing at the University of Cincinnati from 195s4 to 1960. She initiated during this time the first graduate program in Psychiatric Nursing at the University and also the first clinical specialist program in Child Psychiatry Nursing in the USA.
• In 1960, she co-authored one of the first psychiatric texts, Basic Psychiatric Nursing Concepts, which was published in eleven languages and used worldwide.
• She was appointed Professor of Nursing in Anthropology at the University of Colorado in 1966 - the first joint appointment of a professor of nursing and a second discipline in the United States.
• In 1966, Dr. Leninger developed the first course in Transcultural Nursing while a professor at the University of Colorado.
• From 1969 to 1973, she was Dean, Professor of Nursing and Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Washington, School of Nursing.
• She established the first master’s and doctoral programs in Transcultural Nursing at the University of Utah in 1974.
• She founded the Transcultural Nursing Society in 1974 and the International Association of Human Care in 1978, and served as first full-president of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
• From 1974 to 1980, Dr. Leininger served as Dean, Professor of Nursing, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah College Of Nursing.
• In 1981, she began her tenure as Professor of Nursing at Wayne State University as Professor of Nursing and Director of the Center for Health Research at the College of Nursing, as well as Adjunct Professor of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts.
• Established and served as first editor of the Journal of Transcultural Nursing from 1989 to 1995.
• Since 1983, the Leininger Transcultural Nursing Awards have recognized outstanding leaders in Transcultural Nursing. The awards address the imperative to make Transcultural Nursing known as a discipline worldwide.
• Leininger’s greatest contribution to the Nursing Profession was her works on the Theory of Culture and Care. Her recognition of the need for the development of strategies in nursing which will integrate different cultures, patterns and life ways, and her experiences as psychiatric clinical nurse specialist led her to study further and come-up with what we have right now as the Transcultural Nursing theory.
• She retired as Professor Emeritus from Wayne State University on June 1, 1995.