Joyce Travelbee Flashcards
ranges from a feeling of unease to extreme torture, and varies in intensity, duration and depth
Suffering
Suffering ranges from a feeling of unease to extreme torture, and varies in
intensity, duration and depth
is the means through which the purpose of nursing is fulfilled
Human-to-human relationship
is a therapeutic human-to-human relationship formed during illness and experience of suffering
interpersonal process
what is Joyce Travelbee’s theory
Human-to-Human Relationship Model of Nursing
is an interpersonal process because it is always concerned with people either directly or indirectly
nursing
the “people” nurses are concered with include
ill and healthy individuals, their families, visitors, personnel and members of the allied discipline
nursing is also a “_________”, by that we mean it is an “____________” or a happening, or series of happenings between an nurse, an individual, or group of individuals in need of the assistance a nurse can offer.
process; experience
occur as a result of the impact of one individual on the other
change
Travelbee proposed two different criteria of health:
subjective and objective
is defined individually, i.e., in accord with each person’s appraisal of his physical-emotional-spiritual status as perceived by him.
subjective health
is highly individualistic
subjective health
implies that a person is as healthy as he percieves himself to be at any given time
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
when the physical-psychological-spiritual aspects fall within what is considered a normal range in our society, the individual is judged
healthy
the person making judgement of “objective” health ay be a
physician, psychiatrist, priest, rabbi, or minister
an experience or series of experiences between the human being who is the nurse and an ill person, or an individual in need of the services of the nurse
human-to-human relationship
a major premise of Travelbee’s work is that there is
an utter uniqueness to every individual
the language of love is
universal and needs no interpreter
is a stereotype and a category
patient
refers to the diminishing capacity to percieve ll persons as human beings accompanied by increasing proclivity to perceive ill persons as an “illness,” or as a task” to be performed, instead of as human beings.
process of human reduction
the most common emotional response an individual feels when subjected to the frustration of dehumanization is
anger
is a feeling of displeasure which ranges from simple transitory mental, physical, or spiritual discomfort to extreme anguish, and to those phases beyond anguish
suffering
phases beyond anguish
- The Malignant Phase: Despairful “Not Caring”
- The Terminal Phase: Apathetic Indifference
is experienced when the individual has suffered mentally, physicallu, or spiritually too intensely, over too long a period of time, without assistance and ithout sycrease of suffering.
Despairful “Not Caring”
occurs when the individual progresses beyond the stage of despairful “not-caring”
Apathetic Indifference
Such an individual does not complain; neither does he bitterly express the angry feelings of hopelessness so typical during the phase of despair.
Apathetic Indifference
is an interpersonal emergency and calls for immediate concerted action
Despairful “Not Caring”
is experienced when the individual encounters various types of distressing diffulculties
suffering
reactions to suffering and illness can e classified into two broad categories:
the “Why me? reaction; and the “acceptance reaction” or the “why not me” typeof reaction
this reaction is probably the most common of alll responses to suffering and illness
Thw “Why Me” Reaction
the source of this reaction is probably nnacceptance of the experience of illness and suffering
The “Why Me” Reaction
An individual may blame himself or his loved one for causing or being exposed to illness
blaming
The peson may wonder why this illness or suffering happened to him. He may wonder why he was singled out or “picked out”
Bafflement
is defined as anger turned inward toward the self
depression
there are times when aan ill person may feel a deep, surging, almost overwhelming desire to be well again
longing
depression and the frustrations resulting from unfulfilled longing may also induce ____________________ in the ill person
self-pitying behavior
is engendered and a general “I-fee-orry-for-myself attitude is displayed
Self-pity
is probably anger rurned inward toward the self
self-pity
is the least common of all responses to suffering and ill
The “Acceptanc Reaction”
i sbale to recieve suffering and illness without protest, and in osm rare instances, is able to make an affirmative response to these conditions
The “Acceptance Reaction”