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September l, 1909 - march 17, 1999
the groundbreaking book,
interpersonalrelationshipsin
nursing was completed in
1948 but wasn t published
until 1952 because, at that
time, it was too revolutionary
for a nurse to publish without
theorist I innovator I army nurse
psychoanalystl author I advocate
professor I speaker I pioneer
global consu(tant) national advisor
mother of psychiatric nursing
In it Peplou describes the four phases of
the nurse-potient relationship b the siH
roles of the nurse
a physician co-author.
"Somewhere,
somehow, ot some
time in the post,
couropeous nurses
determined these
shills, learned them,
foupht for the ripht
to Use them, refined
them, ond toupht
them to other nurses.
nurses hove on
oblipotion to
remember that port
of nursinp's post, ond
to beep their own
shills in pace with
new opportunities for
nursinp into the neHt
centurq" (Pep(ou, 1987,
p.32).
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pep
ees, in luding
si
r ary
doctorates
references
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PeplQU is the onlq nurse servinp
as both the EHecutive Director
and, later, President of the
American nurses association.
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peplau
developed
the 1st
graduate-
level psych
nursing
programs
in both the
us. &
europe.
She worbed Qtonpside
famous americon
psqchiQtrists to
reshape the US
mental health sustem
via possope of the
notional mental Health
act of 1940,
Orientation
Identification
EHploitotion
troop
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each
eode
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ounse(
93
years later,
peplau became
the 1st nursing
theorist to
publish after
florence
nightingale
peplau, h. e. (1987). psychiatric skills: tomorrow's world. nursing times, 834), 29-32.
tomey, a. m, & alligood, m. r. (eds.). (20021 nursing theoristsandtheirwork. (5th ed.). St.
louis, missouri: mosby.
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