[1] According to Madeleine Leininger, the pioneer of transcultural nursing, it is a substantive area of study and practice that focuses on the comparative cultural values of caring, the beliefs and practices of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures.
As a discipline, it centers on combining international and transcultural content into the training of nurses.
[1] Through Leininger, transcultural nursing started as a theory of diversity and universality of cultural care.
They are nurses who provide knowledgeable, competent, and safe care to people of diverse cultures to themselves and others.
Chartered in 1974, the society is the publisher of the Journal of Transcultral Nursing, a publication that had been in existence since 1989.