Nursing 1170A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter week 5: Nursing Process
9 Dec 2016
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Before peplau, nurses were viewed as objects, but peplau taught that patients weren"t objects, but were subjects and that psychiatric nurses must participate with the patients, engaging in the nurse-patient relationship. At the time, the psychiatric nurse was viewed as a companion to patients, someone who would play games and take walk, but talk about nothing substantial. Peplau"s goal was to prepare nurse psychotherapists, referring to this training as talking to patients, learning what was helpful/harmful in situations. Peplau defined nursing as a significant, therapeutic, interpersonal process that is an educative instrument, a maturing force, that aims to promote foreword movement of personality in the direction of creative, constructive, productive, personal and community living. First theorist to identify the nurse-patient relationship as being central to all nursing; nursing cant occur without this relationship. Nurse brings professional expertise, which includes clinical knowledge. And interact with the patient as a resource and a teacher.
