Which nursing action is a reflection of Hildegard Peplau's theoretic framework regarding psychiatric mental health nursing?
a. Basing patient outcomes on expected instinctual responses
b. Discussing a patient's feelings regarding parents and siblings
c. Providing the patient with clean clothes and wholesome food
d. Centering professional practice in a state run psychiatric facility
ANS: B
Peplau's pioneering endeavors and contributions were largely influenced by interpersonal psychotherapy. She believed that disorders evolved in the social context of interpersonal in-teractions. (i.e., what went on between people). Instinctual responses are more related to in-trapersonal interactions. Florence Nightingale was instrumental in the holistic approach to nursing care, whereas Linda Richards' practice was centered on institutional care of the mental ill.
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