Hildegard Peplau

In Reading, Pennsylvania on September 1, 1909, Hildegard Peplau was born to strict German parents. With an illiterate hardworking father, and a perfectionist mother. No could predicate Peplau would be recognized as the " mother of psychiatric nursing ". Peplau witness the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918. The experience at such a young age influence Peplau to the Nursing field. In 1931, Peplau graduated from Pottstown Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She then went on to begin her career as a staff nurse in New York City. Where she earned a temporary position as a nurse for the New York University summer camp. She soon went on to become the school nurse at Bennington College in Vermont through a work study program. She studied interpersonal …show more content…
The first phase of the relationships is the orientation phase. This is just a phase where the nurse and the patient begin to facilitate the nurse patient relationship. This is the current phase for both the nurse and the patient to work through any preconceived ideas of each other in to lay the foundation to a strong network of trust between the two the second phase and pet loss theory is the identification face during this phase the primary goal of the nurse is the AIDS patient and realizing their problems and help them articulate these problems to the nurse the nurse also help the patient cultivate a sense of responsibility for their own care the third phase is referred to as the exploitation face during this phase it is expected that the nurse in the patient have both reached the point of complete trust in one another and have built their professional relationship goes the nurse and the patient or actively engaging in plans for discharge and for life outside of the nurses care the last phase has often been said to be one of the most difficult for the patient and even the nurse this is the resolution face to face in which the patient has much more self reliance and is less reliant upon his or her caregivers the patient and the nurse or now ready to sever the relationship they have built in anticipation for the patient to take over complete care of their Cell pass out of town her masters and doctoral degrees from Columbia University in the early 1950s Peplau created the first graduate program for psychiatric nursing students her contribution to the education of nurses along with her interpersonal relationships series has greatly impacted the mental health field she paid the way for other nurses to follow in her footsteps of all of her accomplishments one that I respect the most was that she gave a voice to those patients who cannot speak for