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Hildegard Peplau was an influential American psychiatric nurse known as the "Psychiatric Nurse of the Century." She developed the theory of interpersonal relations in nursing. Peplau received her nursing degree in 1931 and went on to earn bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. She served as a staff and school nurse, Army nurse during WWII, and held leadership roles with the American Nurses Association and WHO. Peplau taught nursing and published her seminal work "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" in 1952, which outlined her theory of the nurse-patient relationship through six nursing roles and four phases. Peplau's theory became fundamental to psychiatric nursing and emphasized meeting patients' psychosocial needs through effective

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Life and Works of

Hildegard Peplau was an influential American psychiatric nurse known as the "Psychiatric Nurse of the Century." She developed the theory of interpersonal relations in nursing. Peplau received her nursing degree in 1931 and went on to earn bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. She served as a staff and school nurse, Army nurse during WWII, and held leadership roles with the American Nurses Association and WHO. Peplau taught nursing and published her seminal work "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" in 1952, which outlined her theory of the nurse-patient relationship through six nursing roles and four phases. Peplau's theory became fundamental to psychiatric nursing and emphasized meeting patients' psychosocial needs through effective

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Life and Works of

‘Psychiatric Nurse of the Century’


Flow of Discussion

o Life of Peplau
o Works and Achievements
o Writings and Publications
o Metaparadigm
•Birthday
• September 1, 1909
•Birthplace
• Reading, Pennsylvania
•Academic Background
• Pottstown, Pennsylvania School of Nursing, 1931
• Bachelor’s Degree in Interpersonal Psychology,
Bennington College in Vermont, 1943
• Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Teachers College,
Columbia University in 1947
Works and Achievements
• Staff Nurse
• Pennsylvania and New York City, 1930s
• School Nurse
• Bennington College in Vermont, 1930s
• Army Nurse Corps (WWII)
• 312th Field Station Hospital, 1943-1945
• Executive Director and President
• American Nurses Association (ANA)
• Advisor
• World Health Organization (WHO)
•Nursing Teacher
• Teacher’s College, early 1950s
• Graduate Psychiatric Nursing Students
• Rutgers University, 1594-1974
• Faculty of the College of Nursing
• “Professor Emerita”
•Credentialing
•First graduate program for
clinical specialists
•National Mental Health Act
of 1946
Writings and Publications
•Interpersonal Relations in
Nursing, 1952
•Nurse-Patient relationship
•First nursing theory textbook since
Nightingale’s in the 1850s
The Interpersonal Relations
Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
• Psychobiological experiences of the patient
• Six Roles of a Nurse
• Four Phases of the nurse-patient relationship
• Changing Aspects of Nurse-Patient Relationships
• Influences
• Publication in Modern Writings
Interpersonal Relations in Nursing

• Psychobiological experiences of the patient


• Needs
• Frustrations
• Conflicts
• Anxieties
Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
• Six Nursing Roles
•Stranger
•Resource person
•Teacher
•Leader
•Surrogate
•Counselor
Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
• Four Phases of the nurse-patient relationship
Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
• Changing Aspects of Nurse-Patient Relationships
Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
• Influences of the Publication
• Henry Stack Sullivan
• Percival Symonds
• Abraham Maslow
• Neal Elger Miller
• Contemporaneous Psychoanalytical Model
Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
• Peplau’s works in Modern Publications
• The research on the effect of communication on nurse-patient
relationships (Arungwa, 2014)
• Observing and Analyzing empathy in Brazilian Nursing
Professionals (Trevizan et al., 2015)
• Assisting Nursing Students to understand Holistic
Communication Skills during their encounters with older
adults (Deane & Fain, 2016)
Peplau’s Theory
•Published in 1952
•Became the crux of
Psychiatric Nursing
•Middle-range descriptive
classification theory
Metaparadigms of the Theory
• Person
• developing organism that tries to reduce anxiety
caused by needs
• Environment
• consists of existing forces outside of the person
• Health
• implies forward movement of personality and other
human processes
Metaparadigms of the Theory
•Nursing
• Six Roles of a Nurse
• Four Phases of the nurse-patient relationship
• Changing Aspects of Nurse-Patient
Relationships
• Influences
“Linking nurses and their
information and knowledge
across borders – around the
world – will surely advance the
profession of nursing much more
rapidly in the next century”
-Hildegard Peplau
Life and Works of

‘Psychiatric Nurse of the Century’


References
• Nursing-Theory.org
• Nurselabs.com

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