While caring for the client with a mental illness, which action by the psychiatric–mental health nurse best indicates use of Hildegard Peplau's nursing theory?

Question

1. Establishing a therapeutic nurse-client relationship
2. Intervening to enhance the client's abilities to perform self-care
3. Assessing client's interactions with their environment
4. Evaluating the effectiveness of the client's coping and adaptation skills

Answer 1

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Rationale: Peplau conceptualized the one-to-one nurse–client relationship in which the client can accomplish developmental tasks and practice healthy behaviors. Dorothea Orem identified the goal of self-care and focused on the client's abilities to perform self-care to maintain life, health, and well-being. Martha Rogers' work gave psychiatric nurses a mandate to use holistic principles and to consider human beings and environmental interactions. Sister Callista Roy's adaptation theory related the notion of coping or adapting to stimuli as humans interact with their environment.