Hildegard Only Flashcards
Who said that, “nursing is therapeutic because it is a healing art, assisting an individual who is sick or in need of health care”?
Hildegard Peplau
This theory emphasized the nurse-client relationship as the foundation of nursing practice. It gave emphasis on the give-and- take of nurse-client relationships that was seen by many as revolutionary.
Interpersonal Relations Theory
This theory emphasize the need for a partnership between nurse and client as opposed to the client passively receiving treatment and the nurse passively acting out doctor’s orders
Interpersonal Relations Theory
When was Peplau born?
September 1, 1909
What motivates Peplau?
she witnessed the devastating flu epidemic that greatly influenced her understanding of the impact of illness and death on families
She was an American nurse who is the only one to serve the American Nurses Association
Hildegard Peplau
She was known as the “Mother of Psychiatric Nursing” and the “Nurse of the Century.”
Hildegard Peplau
When did Hildegard Peplau died?
March 17, 1999
Cause of death of Peplau?
She died on her sleep
This theory explains the purpose of nursing is to help others identify their felt difficulties and that nurses should apply principles of human relations to the problems that arise at all levels of experience.
Interpersonal Relations
an organism that “strives in its own way to reduce tension generated by needs.” The client is an individual with a felt need. person, which is a developing organism that tries to reduce anxiety caused by needs.
man
defined as “a word symbol that implies forward movement of personality and other ongoing human processes in the direction of creative, constructive, productive, personal, and community living.”
health
a “significant, therapeutic, interpersonal process.” She defines it as a “human relationship between an individual who is sick, or in need of health services, and a nurse specially educated to recognize and to respond to the need for help.”
nursing
A professional and planned relationship between client and nurse that focuses on the client’s needs, feelings, problems, and ideas. It involves interaction between two or more individuals with a common goal. The attainment of this goal, or any goal, is achieved through a series of steps following a sequential pattern.
Therapeutic nurse-client relationship
This phase defines the problem. It starts when the nurse meets the patient, and the two are strangers.
Orientation phase