"The Therapeutic Use of Self" - Core text in my Nursing studies at UBC back in the late 70's. This principle guided my practice for 30 years.
Joyce Travelbee
1926 - 1973
FAR ahead of her time with her call (in 1949!) for
natural childbirth, prenatal instruction, father participation in birth
process, and rooming-in! Joyce Travelbee 1966 "Human to
Human Relationship Model" Art and Science of Humanistic Nursing A theory A
unique, irreplaceable individual (Extract from http://www.unf.edu/~wahrens/theor.htm)
"Human to Human Relationship Model"
Travelbee's
experience in initial psych nursing practice at a Catholic charity hospital led
her to believe that the care given in these type of institutions lacked
compassion. She felt nursing needed a "humanistic revolution" and a
renewed focus on caring as central to nursing--she warned that if this didn't
happen, consumers might seek a "new and different kind of health care
worker." Travelbee's ideas have greatly influenced the hospice movement.
Travelbee died tragically young at age 47 while beginning doctoral study.
- Know thyself is a basic principle of psychiatric nursing - Travelbee
(1971) described the instrument for delivery of the process of
interpersonal nursing as the therapeutic use of self.
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