Leininger''s Culture Care Diversity And Universality

About Hiba B. Wehbe-AlamahMarilyn R. McFarland

Marilyn' R. McFarland PhD RN CTN-A FNP-BC is a Professor Department of Nursing School of Health Professions and Studies University of Michigan-Flint. Dr. McFarland earned her PhD in Nursing with a focus in Transcultural Nursing from Wayne State University Detroit Michigan; Master of Science in Nursing from Wayne State with a major in Medical Surgical nursing and minors in Teaching in Nursing Gerontological Nursing and Transcultural Nursing; and Bachelor of Science in Nursing also from Wayne State.' Her family nurse practitioner certificate was earned from Saginaw Valley State University in 2005.'As a Certified Transcultural Nurse and'Transcultural Nursing Author and Scholar Dr. McFarland has been nationally and internationally recognized for her contributions to transcultural nursing by the Transcultural Nursing Society receiving the 1993 Leininger Award for Excellence in Transcultural Nursing from the Society.' She was also the 1994 Recipient of the Leininger Transcultural Nursing Award for Excellence and Creative Leadership in Transcultural Nursing and Human Care from Wayne State University College of Nursing Detroit Michigan.' In addition to individually publishing numerous book chapters and articles Dr. McFarland co-authored two texts with Dr. Madeleine Leininger Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory (2006) and Transcultural Nursing: Concepts Theories Research & Practice (2002) which was the recipient of the 2003 American Journal of Nursings Book of the Year Award.Dr. McFarland is a past editor of the Journal of the Transcultural Nursing a past chair of the Transcultural Nursing Certification Commission whose members developed a revised certification examination process under her guidance has been a member of the TCNS Board has served on numerous Society committees and co-presented the Keynote Address with Dr. Leininger in 2011 at the 37th Annual TCNS International Conference in Las Vegas Nevada. She is also a member of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners American Nurses Association the Michigan Nurses Association and ANA-Michigan (formerly RN-AIM).' As a career-long member of Sigma Theta Tau International she is active in the local Pi Delta chapter based at UM-Flint.Dr. McFarland has taught at the undergraduate level in the areas of gerontology fundamentals of nursing and health assessment. She currently teaches nursing at the graduate level focusing on transcultural health care advanced practice nursing role development and graduate translational research projects. She has served on many doctoral nursing dissertation committees nationally as well as on many masters theses committees statewide. Her clinical practice is focused on caring for the underinsured at a local health department family planning clinic. 'As a leader in transcultural nursing Dr. McFarland has studied practiced consulted and lectured throughout the United States and in various parts of Europe Kenya Taiwan and Australia. She has conducted transcultural research studies focused on Polish Anglo American African American Mexican American and German American elders using Leiningers Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality. Dr. McFarland recently co-participated in a metasynthesis of culture care theory research studies guided by the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality.' Her scholarly interests include the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) the translation of evidenced-based research into clinical practice and the integration of transcultural nursing theory into nurse practitioner practice in diverse settings. Hiba B. Wehbe-Alamah PhD RN FNP-BC'CTN-A is Associate Professor Department'of Nursing School of Health Professions'and Studies at the University of MichiganFlint. Dr. Wehbe-Alamah earned her PhD'and post-masters certificate in Transcultural'Nursing from Duquesne University in'Pittsburgh Pennsylvania; she also earned'her Master of Science in Nursing (Family'Nurse Practitioner) and Bachelor of Science'in Nursing from Saginaw Valley State'University in Saginaw Michigan. She holds'an advanced-level certification in transcultural'nursing and was recognized by the Transcultural Nursing Society'(TCNS) as a Transcultural Nursing Scholar in 2011.A member of the Transcultural Nursing Society (TCNS) National'American Arab Nurses Association National Organization of Nurse'Practitioner Faculties American Association of Nurse Practitioners'Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners Michigan Nurses Association'and a career-long member of Sigma Theta Tau International Dr. Wehbe-Alamah has presented guest-lectured and/or published in the United'States Australia Europe Asia and the Middle East. Dr. Wehbe-Alamah'was actively involved in the planning and implementation of a three-year'federally funded Nurse Education Practice and Retention project at the'University of MichiganFlint entitled Developing Nurses Cultural Competencies:'Evidence-Based and Best Practices. Through this project she played a key role'in providing cultural competence training to registered nurses advanced'practice nurses nursing faculty nursing students and diverse healthcare'providers in 35 states across the United States.Dr. Wehbe-Alamah led an interdisciplinary project involving faculty and'students from the Nursing Computer Science and Art departments at the'University of MichiganFlint that created the first transcultural computerbased'simulation game CultureCopia. As a member of the Transcultural'Nursing Societys Transcultural Nursing Certification Commission she'co-developed an international online certification exam for advanced transcultural'nurses and contributed test questions to the basic transcultural'nursing certification exam for registered nurses. She teaches nursing at the'undergraduate masters and doctoral levels focusing on womens health'and transcultural health care; conducts and chairs doctoral dissertations'and capstone projects with graduate nursing students; and advises students'enrolled in undergraduate masters and doctoral programs. Her clinical'practice centers on womens health and the underinsured at a local community'health department.Dr. Wehbe-Alamahs scholarly and research interests include obesity;'womens health; mental health; primary care; creative teaching methodologies;'computer simulation games; technology use in the academic setting;'Asian African American and Middle Eastern health and wellbeing; health'disparities; cultural healers and generic/folk beliefs and practices; and cultural'competence for diverse healthcare providers nursing students practicing'nurses and nursing faculty.