THEORY OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS HILDEGARD E PEPLAU A

THEORY OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS HILDEGARD E. PEPLAU A MIDDLE-RANGE NURSING THEORY By: Sharetha Hollier

Hildegard E. Peplau • • • She was born on September 1 , 1909 in Reading, Pennsylvania. She was number two of six children from immigrants parents from Germany. After World War I ended in 19 18, the Flu Pandemic greatly impacted her understanding on illness and death in families. Schools were controlled by hospitals, formal learning was discouraged. Physicians and hospitals saw nurses as free labor or low wage labor. Nursing practice was controlled by medicine. http: //publish. uwo. ca/~cforchuk/peplau/ob ituary. html)

Hildegard E Peplau � Nevertheless, in 1931, she graduated from Pottstown, PA, School of Nursing diploma program.

Hildegard E. Peplau Continued • After Nursing school she earned her Bachelor Degree in Interpersonal Psychology from Bennington College in 1943. • Later , in 1947 she earned a Master in Psychiatric Nursing from Teachers College, Colombia University. • In 1953, Ed. D. Nursing Education second graduate degree and curriculum developed from Columbia University. • • • She received many honorary degrees She is known as the “mother of psychiatric nursing” Helped revolutionize the scholarly work of nurses. (Alligood & Tomey, 2010)

Work History � � � In the beginning of her career she worked as a staff nurse in Pennsylvania and New York City. She held a position of Executive Director and President of the American Nurses Association and The National Institute of Mental Health She served as an Consultant for World Health Organization. She developed the first Graduate Program for clinical Specialist in Psychiatry. In 1943 -1945 she served in the Army Nurse Corps World War II and assigned to an Hospital in England. (http: //publish. uwo. ca/~cforchuk/peplau/obituary. html)

Foundation of Hildregard Peplau’s Framework � � � Her work was influenced by Freud, Maslow, and Harold Stack Sullivan. She attended lectures by Sullivan on Interpersonal Relations. She borrowed the psychological model to synthesize her Theory of Interpersonal Relations. Her work is specific to nurse-patient relationship. Her work is categorized as a theory for practice of nursing. (Alligood & Tomey, 2010)

HILDEGARD PEPLAU The first published nursing theorist in a century since Nightingale (Alligood & Tomey, 2010)

Publications � � In 1952 published Interpersonal Relations in Nursing. Published three books. Published numerous journals and speeches. Significance: first nurse to synthesize nursing theory from other scientific fields. http: //publish. uwo. ca/~cforchuk/peplau/obituary. html)

Hildegard E. Peplau PROFESSIONAL INFLUENCES ON NURSING � � She influence the advancement of professional, educational, and practice standard in nursing. Her scope of influence in nursing includes her contributions as a psychiatric nursing expert, educator, author, and nursing leader and theorist Nursing as a profession, not just a skill. Made a way for psychosocial nursing. � She developed the Theory of Interpersonal Relations, a midrange theory focusing on the relationship between the nurse and the patient. (http: //publish. uwo. ca/~cforchuk/peplau/obituar y. html)

Hildegard E. Peplau Theory of Interpersonal Relations Peplau believed that nurses play an important role in helping clients reduce their anxiety and in converting it into constructive action. (Mc. Ewen, 2010)

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