Nursing staff members from an acute psychiatric unit have been asked to establish a nurse theorist they can easily identify with in their practice
Understanding the importance of developing a therapeutic relationship between themselves and their clients, especially in this unit, to which theorist would they most likely be drawn?
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Hildegard Peplau
3. Jean Watson
4. Dorothea Orem
Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Florence Nightingale's theory focused on environmental controls.
Rationale 2: Hildegard Peplau, a psychiatric nurse, introduced a theory in which a therapeutic relationship between the nurse and client is central.
Rationale 3: Jean Watson's theory has caring as its central theme.
Rationale 4: Dorothea Orem's theory focused on self-care deficit.
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