Peplau’s Contributions to Psychiatric and Nursing Knowledge

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Hildegard Peplau’s work formally began the development, basis and revolution of nursing knowledge for general nursing as well as for psychiatric mental health nursing. Her underlying philosophical assumptions and interpersonal relations theory not only emphasized the science of nursing that was empirically rooted and dominant from the time, but she illustrated how nursing as an art could equally contribute to the nursing knowledge, practice, and research that is so evident in nursing today. As a pioneer of nursing, Peplau helped to bridge the gap between theory and practice that continues to build on nursing’s knowledge base today. On the Canadian front, nurse leader, Cheryl Forchuk, continues to put it to the test.

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Releasing the therapeutic potential of the psychiatric nurse: a human relations perspective of the nurse-patient relationship.

D. Cameron, R Kapur, P. Campbell (2005)

In psychiatry mental health nurses form the largest professional discipline providing care on an everyday basis for sustained periods. Mental health nurses therefore are in a pivotal position to establish valued therapeutic alliances. In practice, however, a disproportionate amount of nursing time is taken up by administration, time spent talking to patients is minimal and when interactions do occur they remain notionally therapeutic and often are not theoretically informed. This noted paucity of therapeutic contact is antithetical to the aspirations of service users who increasingly are asking for a more skilled approach to the talking-listening that occurs in the therapeutic encounter. It is hypothesized by the present authors that an object-relations perspective of the nurse-patient relationship could release the largely untapped therapeutic potential of the psychiatric nurse by (1) bridging the gap between theory and practice and (2) providing a professional identity from within which nurses can begin to 'get to know' and understand the predicament of the patient with severe mental illness.

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Interpersonal mental health nursing: research issues and challenges.

M. Chambers (1998)

Since Peplau outlined her perceptions of psychiatric/mental health nursing in (1952) interpersonal relationships has been considered by many as the core of practice. In the intervening period of almost a half century many researchers and theorists have endeavoured to develop and integrate Peplau's framework into day-to-day nursing activity. However, more recently, as a result of the fusion between the professional nursing agenda and the wider political agenda, the importance of interpersonal relationships and the individuality of psychiatric/mental health nursing is being questioned. This questioning is represented in the debate about the aetiology of mental illness, the choice of research methods to determine treatment outcomes and by association the role and value of the psychiatric/mental health nurse. This paper will focus on the interpersonal nature of psychiatric/mental health nursing and explore possible research approaches aimed at explicating its core. Attention will be given to the necessity of using pluralistic methodology in order to do so.

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The human science basis of psychiatric nursing: theory and practice

P Barker, W. Reynolds, C. Stevenson (1997)

Psychiatric nurses in the United Kingdom (UK) have begun to reattend to people with 'serious and enduring mental illness'. At the same time research in the USA and UK has refocused much of its attention on neuroscientific theories and models of serious mental illness. Psychiatric nurses are being encouraged to consider the value of biomedical explanations of serious illness, such as schizophrenia, and to accommodate these theories and models in the practice of nursing. This paper will examine the challenge of the biomedical approach for the continued development of psychiatric nursing theory and practice. It is proposed that psychiatric nursing needs to develop further its own 'proper focus', if it is to survive as a key player in the health care field on the 21st century.

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Title: Journal of Mental Health and Addiction Nursing

Abbreviated Title: JMHAN

Publisher: Dougmar Publishing Group, Inc.

ISSN (Electronic): 2561-309X

Publication date Created: February 15 2017

Publication date (Electronic): March 01 2017

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

Pages: e10-e18

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DOI: 10.22374/jmhan.v1i1.3

SO-VID: 71a52553-fb7f-4cc1-8a61-fc2e9f80c589

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