Dr. Carolina S.

Agravante
The CASAGRA Transformative
Leadership Model
Raul Vincent F. Aseñas and Floramae T. Cotales
About the theorist

Sr. Carolina S. Agravante, SPC, PhD, RN

The tittle of the theory was derived from

her name.

She continues to hold various administrative

positions in different St. Paul
College/University in the Philippines. She is
also active in national nursing organizations
committed to the advancement of the nursing
profession.
About the theorist

History

1964 – BS Nursing Degree (St. Paul University)

Top 10 in the Licensure Exam

1970 – Master’s Degree (CUA)

2002 – Doctoral Degree (UP Manila)

Published her theory
About the theorist

Facts

• Served as the President of SPUI

• Former President of the Association of

Deans of the Philippine Colleges of Nursing

• Founding member of the Integrated

Registered Nurses of the Philippines
The CASAGRA Transformative
Leadership Model

Major Proposition
 Major Proposition
The CASAGRA Transformative Leadership Model: SERVANT – Leader Formula
and the Nursing Faculty’s Transformative Leadership Behavior

• It is a psycho – spiritual model, which means an effective means for faculty to become
better teachers and servant - leaders.

• The model is a Three- Fold Transformation Leadership Concept rolled into one.
The CASAGRA Transformative
Leadership Model

Key Concepts
 Key Concepts
The CASAGRA Transformative Leadership Model was designed to lead to radical
change from apathy or indifference to spiritual person.

The servant- leader formula has three parts: (1) the care complex primer, (2) a retreat
workshop on Servant- leadership, (3) a seminar workshop on Transformative Teaching for
nursing facility.
 Key Concepts
Special expertise is the level of competence in nursing skills, commitment to the nursing
profession, the sense of collegiality with the school, other health professionals, and local
community.

Nursing leadership is the force within the nursing profession that sets vision for its practitioners,
laying down the roles, function, and influences the direction toward which the profession should
go.
 Key Concepts
Transformative teaching (or Reflective Teaching) is an umbrella term covering ideas such as
thoughtful instruction, teacher research, teacher narrative, and teacher empowerment.

Care Complex is the nucleus of care experiences formed by a combination of maternal care
experiences, culture- based care practices, and the professional training on care acquired in a
formal course of nursing.
The CASAGRA Transformative
Leadership Model

Theoretical/ Conceptual
FINDINGS
 Critique

This model is significant for the nurse educators.

(Practicability)

Nursing students will be assured of similar leadership

formation that will be provided to them by the nursing
educators who advocated the model.
(Generalizability)

Agravante’s theory can be considered complex.

(Simplicity)

The study population considered of 30 nursing

faculty divided into control and study group
randomly selected to participate. (Empirical
Precision)
Quote

“ Focus on the type of leadership in

nursing that can challenge the changing
world.”
Sr. Agravante, 2002
THANKS!