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A 4 page research paper that summarizes and evaluates Hildegard Peplau's nursing theory, the Theory of Interpersonal Relations. The writer describes its key elements and then offers brief evaluation, with examples of its application. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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for all nurses, as she wrote that it could serve as a "source of hypotheses that may be examined with profit in all nursing situations" (Peterson, 2008, p. 203). The
stated purpose of Peplaus theory is to "improvement of nurses relations with patients," which Peplau proposed can be achieved by increasing a nurses understanding of personal behavior, "helping others identify
personally experienced difficulties and applying principles of human relations to the problems" that originate within the context of these relationships (Peterson, 2008, p. 203). Key elements of Peplaus theory:
Peplau emphasizes that a "patient" is someone who desires help in solving a health-related problem, but who also desires "respect, personal dignity and to be heard" (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003,
p. 25). Peplau describes how the nurse/patient relationship "evolves through the phases of orientation, identification, exploitation and resolution" (Marchese, 2006, p. 364). Nurses meet the needs the patients needs within
these phases of their relationship by maturing in their self-understanding of their own behaviors and how these behaviors affect the nurse/patient relationship as well as the accomplishment of positive
patient outcomes. The relationship phases described by Peplau enumerate the main objectives and interactions of each step in nurse/patient therapeutic relationship describing how nurses "recognize, accept, and encourage cues that
indicate the patients readiness for growth and movement" (Marchese, 2006, p. 364). Phase 1, orientation, describes the patient and nurse meeting and how the patient begins to accept
aid from the nurse, with the nurse evolving in the patients perception from a stranger towards being a source of information and counseling (Marchese, 2006). The primary goal during
this phase is to establish trust, as the client provides information that the nurse can use to better understand the clients needs (McNaughton, 2005). During the second phase,
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