Hildegard Elizabeth Peplau Flashcards
What is the theory of Hildegard E. Peplau
Theory of Interpersonal Relations
She is the “Mother of Psychiatric Nursing” and the “Nurse of the Century”
Hildegard E. Peplau
What influenced Peplau in her understanding of the impact of illness?
Flu Epidemic
She became the first published nursing theorist since Florence Nightingale.
Hildegard E. Peplau
What year was the “Interpersonal Relations Theory” published?
In 1952
According to Sullivan, nursing is therapeutic because it is a healing art. True or False?
False. Hildegard Peplau stated this.
How and when did Hildegard Peplau died?
She died in her sleep on May 17, 1999
How did Peplau defined Man?
A man is an organism that strives its own way to reduce tension generated by needs.
According to Hildegard Peplau, it is a word symbol that implies forward movement of personality.
Health
How did Hildegard Peplau defined Society or Environment?
She does not directly address society/environment, she does encourage the nurse to consider the patient’s culture and mores.
Hildegard Peplau defines it as a human relationship between an individual who is sick and a nurse educated to respond to the need for help.
Nursing
According to Hildegard Peplau, what skills are the fundamental nursing tools?
Communication and Interviewing skills
Hildegard Peplau believed that nurse and patient can what?
They can interact
(Complete the statement) Hildegard Peplau emphasized that both the patient and nurse…
mature as the result of therapeutic interaction
Where was Hildegard Peplau raised?
Reading, Pennsylvania
A theorist who was illiterate.
Hildegard Peplau
She is the only one to serve the American Nurses Association (ANA)
Hildegard Elizabeth Peplau or Hildegard Peplau
(True or False) The Interpersonal Relations Theory explains the purpose of nursing is to help others identify their felt difficulties and that nurses should apple principles of human relations to the problems that arise at all level of experience.
True
(Complete the statement) According to the assumptions of Hildegard Peplau, she believed that nurses must…
clearly understand themselves to promote their client’s growth and to avoid limiting the client’s choices.
According to Peplau, this phase defines the problem.
Orientation Phase