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Hildegard Peplau

1909-1999

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Summary

 

Hildegard Peplau used the term, psychodynamic nursing, to describe the dynamic relationship between a nurse and a patient.  

 

She described four phases of this relationship: orientation, in which the person and the nurse mutually identify the person's problem; identification, in which the person identifies with the nurse, thereby accepting help; exploitation, in which the person makes use of the nurse's help; and resolution, in which the person accepts new goals and frees herself or himself from the relationship.

 

She also identified six nursing roles of the nurse: 

  • Counseling Role - working with the patient on current problems

  • Leadership Role - working with the patient democratically

  • Surrogate Role - figuratively standing in for a person in the patient's life

  • Stranger - accepting the patient objectively

  • Resource Person - interpreting the medical plan to the patient

  • Teaching Role - offering information and helping the patient learn

Bibliography

 

    Peplau, H.E. (1952). Interpersonal Relations in Nursing. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

 

Summary by Becky Sisk, PhD, RN

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Websites

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Hildegard Peplau: Psychiatric Nurse of the Century , by Calloway (2002)

 

Interpersonal Theory in Nursing Practice: Selected Work of Hildegard E. Peplau , by Peplau, O'Toole,  & Welt (1989)

 

Bibliography

 

    Peplau, H.E. (1964). Basic principles of patient counseling: A conceptual framework of reference for psychodynamic nursing. New York: Springer.

    Peplau, H.E. (1952). Interpersonal Relations in Nursing. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

   Peplau, H.E. (1991). Interpersonal Relations in Nursing. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

   Peplau, H.E., O'Toole, A.W., & Welt, S.R. (1989). Interpersonal Theory in Nursing Practice: Selected Work of Hildegard E. Peplau. New York: Springer.

 

    Plus numerous journal articles available by doing a search on MEDLINE/PUBMED.

 

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