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Winifred W. Logan Alison J. Tierney Ida Jean (Orlando) Pelletier
1926–2007

Nursing Theorists of Historical Significance

Marie E. Pokorny

“The idea of nursing, historically rooted in the care of the sick and in the provision
of nurturance for those vulnerable to ill health, is foundational to the profession.”
(Wolf, 2006, p. 301)

his chapter presents selected theorists who are Peplau provided major leadership in the profes-
Tnoted for their development of nursing theory sionalization of nursing. She served as executive direc-
during the pre-paradigm period. They each represent tor and president of the American Nurses Association
an important contribution to the development of (ANA). She was instrumental in the ANA (1980)
specialized nursing knowledge. definition of nursing that was nursing’s declaration
of a social contract with society in Nursing: A Social
Hildegard E. Peplau Policy Statement (Butts and Rich, 2011). She promoted
professional standards and regulation through cre-
Theory of Interpersonal Relations dentialing. Peplau taught the first classes for gradu-
Hildegard E. Peplau has been described as the mother ate psychiatric nursing students at Teachers College,
of psychiatric nursing because her theoretical and Columbia University, and she stressed the importance
clinical work led to the development of the distinct of nurses’ ability to understand their own behavior
specialty field of psychiatric nursing. Her scope of to help others identify perceived difficulties. Her sem-
influence in nursing includes her contributions as inal book, Interpersonal Relations in Nursing (1952),
a psychiatric nursing expert, educator, author, and describes the importance of the nurse-patient rela-
nursing leader and theorist. tionship as a “significant, therapeutic interpersonal

Photo Credit (Joyce Travelbee): Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, New Orleans, LA.
Previous author: Ann Marriner Tomey.

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