Nursing theorists and the contributions of Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau is considered the Nightingale of Our Time. Her 50 rich years of service as a nurse is capped by her major contribution, The Theory of Interpersonal Relations. It involves an understanding of one's behavior in the cooperation or partnership between nurse and patient or client. The nurse plays 7 roles through 4 orderly phases of progression. She goes through the phases with the client towards a common goal of meeting his needs in the therapeutic partnership. The Theory and the nursing process fulfill and harmonize with the nursing meta-paradigm of client, nurse, environment and health.
Interpersonal Communications Communication Is Very
When communicating at any level, the expectation or outcomes should be identified in order to maximize the information being communicated. If participants in the information exchange are not clear on the senders' message, this can create avoidable barriers to the communication process. For example, I work at a local pub as dish/glass picker, and the management also had me in charge of everyone who worked as dish picker, which involves me to do a lot communication between bartender and my staff. Since English is my second language (I'm Chinese), it created a lot problem over the time, eventually affecting my own job performance. From research, I am learning that outlining the outcomes will help to alleviate potential ambiguity.