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Cheryl Leuning
Professor, Department Chair
leuning@augsburg.edu
In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Cheryl teaches
in both the graduate and undergraduate nursing programs. Her areas
of expertise include transcultural nursing, community/public health
nursing, and curriculum and program development. She has practiced
as a community/public health nurse, a nursing supervisor of a visiting
nurse association, a nursing inservice education coordinator, and
as an oncology and home hospice nurse. Prior to joining Augsburg
College in September of 2002, Cheryl was a member of the faculty
at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she taught
in both the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs and coordinated
the Master of Arts in Nursing Program.
At Augsburg College, Cheryl is an advocate for experiential education.
Together with her colleagues in the Department of Nursing, she has
creatively integrated several unique transcultural nursing practicum
experiences throughout the nursing curricula in both the B.S.N.
and M.A. in Nursing programs.
Cheryl’s research has explored health and illness care provisioning
among pastoral cattle herding people in Namibia; women’s experiences
of empowerment when able to access to safe child care; and the meanings
and expressions of care and caring for elders in urban Namibian
families. Her publications and presentations focus on advancing
the science and art of nursing in a global society.
Cheryl serves on the Board of Directors of the Hamm Clinic in St.
Paul, Minnesota. She is a consultant to the University of Namibia
School of Nursing and a peer reviewer for the Journal of Transcultural
Nursing. Currently, Cheryl is President Elect of the International
Transcultural Nursing Society.
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Education
B.A., Augustana College
M.S., University of Minnesota
Ph.D., University of Utah
Research and Scholarly Interests
Transcultural nursing
Community focused models of nursing practice
Global perspectives in health care
Experiential teaching-learning pedagogies
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Program development and implementation
Recent Publications
Leuning, C. & Hailonga, P. (In Press). Transforming
what is known about HIV/AIDS into culturally appropriate and protective
practices in Tanzania and Namibia. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
Leuning, C., Small, L. & van Dyk, A. (2002). Elder care in
urban Namibian families: An ethnonursing study. In Leininger, M.
& McFarland, M. (Eds.), Transcultural Nursing: Theory, Concepts,
and Practice. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Leuning, C., Swiggum, P., Wiegert, H. M., McCullough-Zander, K.
(2002). Proposed standards for transcultural nursing. Journal of
transcultural nursing 13(1), 40-46.
Leuning, C. (2001). Advancing a global perspective: The world as
classroom. Advances in Nursing Science 14(4), 298-303.
Leuning, C., Small, L. & van Dyk, A. (2000). Meanings and expressions
of care and caring for elders in urban Namibian families: A transcultural
nursing study based on Leininger’s culture care theory of
nursing. Curationis 23(3), 71-80.
Brendtro, M. & Leuning, C. (2000). Nurses in churches: A population-focused
clinical option. Journal of Nursing Education 36(6), 285-288.
Bunkers, S., Nelson, M., Leuning, C., Crane, J., & Josephson,
D. (1998). The health action model: Academia’s partnership
with the community. In Cohen, E. & DeBack, V. (Eds.), The outcomes
mandate: Case management in health care today. New York: Mosby,
Inc.
Areas of Teaching and Responsibilities at Augsburg College
Professor and Chair, Department of Nursing
Transcultural nursing knowledge development and application
Nursing theory as foundational to practice and research
Advancing a global perspective through experiential teaching-learning
practicums abroad
Program development and evaluation
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