Agravante’s
The
CASAGRA
Transformative Leadership
Model
GROUP 1
INTRODUCTION
The present day demands in the nursing profession challenge nursing educators to revisit their basic responsibility of
educating professional nurses who are responsive to technological, educational and social changes happening in the
Philippines society today.
The reopening of the doors of foreign market to Filipino nurses, migration made easy, attractive salaries and benefits
way beyond what hospitals can afford to give. Nursing education is faced with a new concern that is globalization of
nursing services for the international market.
Therefore a need to develop globalization of care with focus on developing caring nurses
“Focus on the type of leadership in nursing that can challenge the values of the changing world…”
REPORTER: Mark Bastasa
INTRODUCTION
The model is a powerful tool in achieving the organization’s vision and mission as it is designed and aimed in
developing a network of innovative, competent and empowered educators towards excellence and nation building.
Since it is spiritual and religious, a paradigm of peace is embedded to engage and prepare nursing administrators and
educators to modern world-challenges today. The theory is based on Biblical teachings of Jesus Christ, which would
impact on the ethical practice that must be followed in the nursing field. In contrast, the theory might not be accepted
in Muslim countries as it is Bible-Based and does not conform to diversities in culture, which might face hesitation
among other theorists, and scholars in the field of Nursing particularly among those that are based in the GCC
countries. The theory is designed to transform a servant leader; an example would be, Agravante possesses Jesus.
REPORTER: Mark Bastasa
HISTORY AND
BACKROUND ● She is famous for being the first
Filipina theorist for writing the
CASAGRA Transformative
● In 1964, she earned her BS
Nursing degree in the same school
as magna cum laude. In the same
Leadership Model. The title of the year, she passed the nurse
theory was derived from her name, licensure examinations as the
CArolina S. AGRAvante. board topnotcher.
● She finished her secondary ● From 1967 to 1969, she studied
education at St. Paul Univeristy - Master’s Degree in Nursing
Manila (formerly St. Paul College Education at Catholic University
- Manila) as class salutatorian. of America as a full-fledged
scholar.
Sr. Carolina S. Agravante, SPC, RN,
Phd
REPORTER: Angela Caith Anacan
HISTORY AND
BACKROUND ● In 2002, she earned her Doctoral
Degree in Philosophy at
University of the Philippines
● She was a former president of the
Association of Deans of the
Philippines Colleges of Nursing
Manila - the same year her theory (ADPCN) as she became the
was published. representative in the International
Nursing Congress that was held in
Brunei in 1996. A year after, she
● She served as the president of St. was a part of a delegation that
Paul University - Iloilo, where she participated in the International
taught research subjects among Council of Nursing in Vancouver,
senior students. Canada.
Sr. Carolina S. Agravante, SPC, RN,
Phd
REPORTER: Angela Caith Anacan
Honors
● Received a Service Award from
the Philippine Accreditation
Association of Schools, Colleges
and Universities (PAASCU) for
being one of the accreditors.
● One of the founding members of
the Integrated Registered Nurses
of the Philippines (IRNP).
● Currently, she is the President of
St. Paul College - Ilocos Sur while
performing the duties of the Vice-
President for Academics.
Moreover, she also functions as
the program chair of the school's
Department of Nursing.
REPORTER: Janine Kyla Bartolome
Influences of the theory
Sister Agravante have noticed the demands and challenges
brought by modern nursing profession
She thinks that the formation of new nursing leaders
is needed
Nurses needs a competent leader that with a dream what
nursing can be
REPORTER: Monjay Gato
Key Concepts
The CASAGRA Transformative Leadership Model: Servant –
Leader Formula & the Nursing Faculty’s Transformative Leadership
Behavior.
The theory is a psycho spiritual model. It is coined after the name of
the investigator: Sr. CArolina S. AGRAvante
REPORTER: Kyren Sheloah
Key Concepts
The model is a Three-Fold Transformation Leadership Concept rolled into
one, comprising of the following elements:
1. Servant-Leader Spirituality
Servant-leadership behavior refers to the perceived behavior of
nursing faculty manifested through the ability to model the servant
leadership qualities to students, ability to bring out the best in
students, competence in nursing skills, commitment to the nursing
profession, and sense of collegiality with the school, other health
professionals, and local community.
Key Concepts
The model is a Three-Fold Transformation Leadership Concept rolled into
one, comprising of the following elements:
1. Servant-Leader Spirituality
This formula consists of a spiritual exercise, the determination of the vitality of
the care complex in the personality of an individual and finally a seminar
workshop on transformative teaching.
The servant-leader formula prescription includes a spiritual retreat that goes
through the process of awareness, contemplation, story telling, reflection, and
finally commitment to become servant-leaders in the footsteps of Jesus.
REPORTER: Kyren Sheloah
Key Concepts
The model is a Three-Fold Transformation Leadership Concept rolled into
one, comprising of the following elements:
2. Self-Mastery
expressed in a vibrant care complex, It consists of a vibrant care complex possessed
to a certain degree by all who have been through formal studies in a care giving
profession such as nursing.
Care complex- is the nucleus of care experiences in the personality of a nurse
formed by a combination of maternal care experiences, culture based-care practices
indigenous to a race and people, and the professional training on care acquired in a
formal course of nursing.
REPORTER: Kyren Sheloah
Key Concepts
The model is a Three-Fold Transformation Leadership Concept rolled into
one, comprising of the following elements:
3. Special Expertise level in the nursing field one is engaged in.
• Special expertise is the level of competence in the particular nursing area that
the professional nurse is engaged in workshop is the spiritual exercise
organized in an ambience of prayer where the main theme is the contemplation
of Jesus Christ as a Servant-leader.
• level is shown in a creative, caring, critical, contemplative and collegial
teaching of the nurse faculty who is directly involved with the formation of the
nursing.
REPORTER: Kyren Sheloah
Key Concepts
The CASAGRA Transformative Leadership Theory is classified as a Practice Theory basing
on the characteristics of a Practice Theory stated by McEwen (2007), which are the following:
a. Complexity / Abstractness, Scope - Focuses on a narrow view of reality, simple
and straightforward
b. Generalizibility /Specificity - Linked to a special populations or an identified
field of practice
c. Characteristic of Scope – Single, concrete concept that is operationalized
REPORTER: Kyren Sheloah
Key Concepts
The CASAGRA Transformative Leadership Theory is classified as a Practice Theory basing
on the characteristics of a Practice Theory stated by McEwen (2007), which are the following:
d. Characteristic of Proposition – Propositions defined
e. Testability – Goals or outcomes defined and testable;
f. Source of Development – Derived from practice or deduced from
middle range theory or grand theory.
REPORTER: Kyren Sheloah
Assumpti
ons
- It is significant to the nurse educators. It will help them
to achieve the vision-mission as a
network of innovative, competent empowered educators
towards excellence in national and global development.
The theory could be the answer in the modern-world
challenges in nursing education that is centered on the
teaching of Jesus, a paradigm of peace.
REPORTER: Kyren Sheloah
Assumpti
ons
- Nursing students will be assured of similar leadership
formation that will be provided to them by the nursing
educators who advocated the CASAGRA Transformative
Leadership model. It will give them the confidence they
need to face the challenges in the profession.
REPORTER: Kyren Sheloah
Assumpti
ons
- Transformative teachers are basically who looks into
herself, sees her assumptions and
feelings in the light of the nursing profession in the
modern days, how her own philosophy of life affects
professional life with her students
- the fact that the author of this theory has put the Lord
Jesus Christ as a pattern or basis for the nurse
leader/educator to follow, and to put into practice the
ideals of a servant-leader
REPORTER: Kyren Sheloah
STRENGTHS
It provided the task of the formation of the nurse leaders at the
baccalaureate level so that the profession assured the graduates
possess the mind and heart of a nursing leader who is of the nursing
profession.
It can also be use in other educational settings not just on
nursing profession.
REPORTER: Mae Bejoc
LIMITATIONS
CASAGRA transformative leadership limits only on Roman Catholic
and Christians nursing educators
Did not consider other religion to this study. In the
Philippines we have a variety of religion present. Every
religion has its own traditions and practices to be
considered.
According to the study, the control and study groups were
selected from the same faculty in the two schools, it is highly
possible that experience could have been discussed casually
in faculty room and in some way must contaminated the
intervention.
REPORTER: Mae Bejoc
Application in Nursing Practice, Education and
Research
Nursing Practice
● She focused on the type of leadership in nursing that can challenge the values of
the changing world.
REPORTER: Rosette Aquino
Application in Nursing Practice, Education and
Research
Education
● The CASAGRA Transformational Leadership Model is suitable for nursing educators,
particularly those who are administrators in the educational setting (Magallanes, 2009). It has
a psycho-spiritual model which can be utilized as a formula for faculty and administrators to
become better teachers and servant leaders.
● This concept was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf, and in the later years, Larry S. Spears added
that in order to accomplish this concept, a servant leader should have the following important
characteristics:
1. Listening
2. Empathy
3. Healing
4. Awareness
5. Persuasion
6. Conceptualization
7. Foresight
8. Stewardship
9. Commitment to the growth of people
10. Building community
REPORTER: Rosette Aquino
Application in Nursing Practice, Education and
Research
Research
● Sr. Agravante's theory of Transformational Leadership Theory is focused primarily on
the educational and psycho-spiritual aspect of nursing. There were no citations about
its use in research but her approach to the development of the theory can be modified
to include nurses with different religion and employ nursing educators from a wider
variety of schools to attain practicability.
REPORTER: Rosette Aquino
Group 1
Introduction- Mark Bastasa
History & Background- Angela Anacan
Published Books & Works – Angela Anacan
Awards & Honors- Janine BARTOLOME
Influences of the Theory- Monjay Gato
Key Concepts– Kyren Sheloah ABULOG
Assumptions- Kyren Sheloah ABULOG
Strengths- Mae BEJOC
Limitations- Mae BEJOC
Application to Nursing Practice, Education &
Research- Rosette Aquino
