Joyce Travelbee Flashcards
The assumptions of this model are based on Soren Kierkegaard’s philosophy of existentialism and Viktor Frankl’s logo therapy.
Human to human relationship model
a unique irreplaceable individual—a one-time being in this world, like yet unlike any person who ever lived or ever will live
Human being
stereotype and category. “actually there are no patients. There are only individual human beings in need of care, services and assistance of other human beings”
Patient
a classification and category. “It is probable that the more an individual cares for, and about others, the greater the possibilities of suffering”.
Illness
a necessity for good nursing and a fundamental part of this theory. “to know ill persons, to ascertain and meet nursing needs and to achieve the purpose of nursing.”
Communication
First impression by the nurse of the sick person and vice-versa.
• Stereotyped or traditional roles
Original Encounter
• the time when relationship begins
• the nurse and patient perceive each other’s uniqueness
Emerging Identities
the ability to share in the person’s experience
Empathy
• when the nurse wants to lessen the cause of patient’s suffering.
Sympathy
described as nursing interventions that lessens the patient’s suffering.
Rapport
a contingent being to whom things happen which are beyond his control. The person suffers and chooses.
Person
subjective and objective.
Health
defined state of wellbeing in accord with self-appraisal of physical-emotional-spiritual status.
Subjective Health
is an absence of discernible disease, disability of defect as measured by physical examination, laboratory tests and assessment by spiritual director or psychological counselor.
Objective Health
nurse must be observant of the patient in the place where the patient is present in order to ascertain that the patient is in need. She speaks of experiences encountered by all humans: suffering, pain, illness, and hope.
Environment
