“Transcultural nursing with a caring focus must become the dominant focus of all areas of nursing. It is the holistic and most complete and creative way to help people.”
Doctor Madeleine Leininger was born in Sutton, Nebraska, USA on July 13, 1925. 
Since childhood, she has lived on a farm with two brothers and two sisters. She graduated from Sutton High School. In deciding which course to choose in college, she credits her aunt who suffered from congenital heart disease who encouraged her to enter the field of nursing.
She entered the cadet Nurse Corps and a diploma program at St. Anthony’s School of Nursing in Denver, Colorado, USA along with her sister in 1945. She went on to receive a BS degree in Biological Science minor in Philosophy and Humanistic Studies from Mount St. Scholastica College (now known as Benedictine College) in Atchison, Kansas, USA.
Throughout her career, Dr. Leininger has been a pioneer and leader in promoting quality nursing care through transcultural understanding. She developed her theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, one of the earliest nursing theories, and coined the term “Culturally Congruent Care” as the goal of this theory.
Dr. Leininger is a nationally and internationally known educator, author, theorist, administrator researcher, consultant, and public speaker. She has been a distinguished visiting professor and scholar at approximately 70 universities in the United States, Canada, and overseas. Her areas of expertise are Transcultural Nursing, Comparative Human Care, Qualitative Research Methods, Cultural Care Theory, Culture of Nursing and Health Fields, Anthropology and the future of nursing.
I am Mrs.Ponnambily Jobin, working as Asst.Lecturer in College of Nursing. This is to bring to your kind information that I have published a conceptual model (under mid range theory) in 2015, addressing 'child sex abuse' as a problem domain. Now, I am working on a grand theory focusing on 'Inter-sensory Perception in Nursing Care'. I have attempted to develop a classification of senses based on a specific criteria, which highlights sixth sense, in addition to five traditional senses such as vision, hearing, smell, touch and taste. I would like to gather suggestions from you to accept or to refute the theory. I humbly request you to have a response on 'what may be the sixth sense, which can be applicable in nursing?'.
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http://understandnursing.blogspot.in/2016/04/dear-colleagues-i-am-mrs.html