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An 8 page research paper that examines, summarizes and describes the theoretical perspective of Hildegard Peplau, one of the most influential nursing theorists of the twentieth century. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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ill patients were typically institutionalized in large mental hospitals. Psychiatric nurses were largely preoccupied with preventing suicide and a plethora of indignities were perpetuated against patients using the rationalization that
practitioners were protecting patients from themselves. Electric shock treatments were given without anesthesia and "ice pick leucotomies" (lobotomies), sometimes as many as 30 to 50 in a single morning, left
patients, docile, but "vegetable-like," in the "wake of the visiting neurosurgeons" (Sills, 1999, p. 5). To this healthcare environment, Hildegard Peplau brought a "theoretically based foundation for nursing
practice," which encouraged nurses to find "health capacities" in their patients, to conduct studies and seek out interventions that were effective in promoting mental health and beneficial change (Sills, 1999,
p. 5). Her effects culminated in the formulation and publication of Peplaus text Interpersonal Relations in Nursing in 1952 and, over half a century later, her theory is still guiding
contemporary nursing practice. Overall purpose From the onset of her career in the 1950s, Peplau was always very clear in her writing about what she believed to be the
purpose of nursing, which she stated was for a nurse to establish a therapeutic relationship with the patient (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). Nursing purpose Peplau states that the purpose
of her theory is the "improvement of nurses relationships with patients," which is a goal that she proposed can be accomplished by educating nurses in regards to understanding interpersonal human
behavior (Peterson, 2008, p. 203). By facilitating the establishment of an intimate and purposeful therapeutic relationship between the nurse and patient, Peplau argues that the goals of nursing can be
more easily and effectively accomplished. Societal purpose As indicated above, prior to Peplau, nursing, and medical intervention in general, was very mechanistic and blatant in its routine intrusion and
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