JOYCE TRAVELBEE Flashcards
Wrote Interpersonal Aspects of Nursing
JOYCE TRAVELBEE
• Wrote about illness, suffering, pain, hope, communication, interaction, empathy, sympathy, rapport and therapeutic use of self
JOYCE TRAVELBEE
she said that a nurse does not only seek to alleviate physical pain or render physical care – she ministers to the whole person. The existence of suffering whether physical, mental or spiritual is the proper concern of the nurse
JOYCE TRAVELBEE
Born in 1926, a psychiatric nurse, educator and writer
JOYCE TRAVELBEE
Completed her BSN at Louisiana State University in 1956
JOYCE TRAVELBEE
- Worked as instructor
- Taught psychiatric nursing
- Publish various articles in Nursing Journals
JOYCE TRAVELBEE
Defined as human being
Person
Unique, irreplaceable individual who is in the continuous process of becoming, evolving and changing
Person
Measured by subjective and objective health
Health
Individual defined state of well being in accord with self appraisal of physical-emotional-spiritual status
Subjective Health
An absence of discernible disease, disability or defect as measured by physical examination, laboratory tests, assessment by a spiritual director or psychological counselor
Objective Health
Not clearly defined
Environment
Defined human conditions and life experiences encountered by men as sufferings, hope, pain and illness
Environment
Interpersonal process whereby the professional nurse practitioner assists an individual, family or community to prevent or cope with the experience of illness and suffering and if necessary to find meaning in these experiences
Nursing
Nursing care needed “humanistic revolution” a return to focus on the caring function towards ill person
Nursing
Nurse-sympathy-patient
Interactional processes
Nurse-empathy-patient
Interactional processes
Nurse-emerging identities-patient
Interactional processes
Nurse-original encounter-patient
Interactional processes
First impression by the nurse of the sick person and vice versa
ORIGINAL ENCOUNTER
Described by the nurse and patient perceiving each other as unique individuals
EMERGING IDENTITIES
Link of relationship begins to form
EMERGING IDENTITIES
Describe as the ability to share in the person’s experience
EMPATHY
Happens when the nurse wants to lessen the cause of the patient’s suffering
SYMPATHY
One is involved but is not incapacitated by the involvement
SYMPATHY
Nursing interventions that lessen the patient’s suffering
RAPPORT
Sick person shows trust and confidence in the nurse
RAPPORT
concepts of existentialism by Soren Kierkegoard and Logotherapy by Victor Frankl
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
believes that humans are constantly faced choices and conflicts and accountable to the choices we make in life
Existential theory
Suffering Meaning Nursing Hope Communication
Logotherapy Basic Concepts
an experience that varies in intensity, duration and depth
Suffering
the reason as one self attributes
Meaning
to help man to find meaning in the experience of illness and suffering
Nursing
Has responsibility to help individuals and their families to find meaning
Nursing
The nurses spiritual and ethical choices, perceptions of illness and suffering are crucial to helping to find meaning
Nursing
faith that can and will be change, that would bring something better with it
Hope
Nurses job is to help the patient to maintain hope and avoid hopelessness
Hope
strict necessity for good nursing care
Communication
HUMAN TO HUMAN RELATIONSHIP MODEL
JOYCE TRAVELBEE
