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Hildegard E. Peplau
Background
1931.
Died in 1999
Nursing roles
Peplau describe different nursing roles that emerge in the various phases of the
nurse-patient relationship.
Nursing Roles
Stranger role:
Receives the client the same way one meets a stranger in other life situations;
provides an accepting climate that builds trust.
Resource person
provides specific, needed information that helps the client understand his
or her problem and the new situation.
Counselor
Teacher
identifies learning needs
Surrogate
Leader
Technical expert
possesses the clinical skills necessary to perform the interventions that are in
the best interest of the client.
Phases
Orientation phase
questions,
shares
Identification
the goal of the nurse: help the patient to recognize his/her own
interdependent/participation role and promote responsibility for self
Exploitation phase
patient attempts to explore, understand and deal with the problem, and gains
independence on achieving the goal
Resolution phase
Environment
Health
Peplau viewed health as "a word symbol that implied forward movement of
personality and other ongoing human processes in the direction of creative,
constructive, productive, personal, and community living"(Peplau,1992, p.12).
Nursing
Application of Theory
Peplaus theory can be used to guide the nurse in the various aspects of
nursing practice.
It will be reflected in the focus of the assessment, the planned strategies and
the criteria used to evaluate the nursing care.
Nurse would use self-reflection and self awareness as well as observing and
understanding phenomena related to the client
In nursing practice
Implementing=Exploitation phase
Evaluation=Resolution phase