Nursing Theory Lecture 11: Joyce Travelbee

Joyce Travelbee 

(1966, 1971) 

Interpersonal Aspects of Nursing 

 

Interpersonal Aspects of Nursing 

• She postulated the Interpersonal Aspects of Nursing Model. She advocated that the goal of nursing individual or family in preventing or coping with illness, regaining health finding meaning in illness, or maintaining maximal degree of health.

• She further viewed that interpersonal process is a human-to-human relationship formed during illness and “experience of suffering”

• She believed that a person is a unique, irreplaceable individual who is in a continuous process of becoming, evolving and changing.

Metaparadigm 

Person 

• A unique, irreplaceable individual who is in a continuous process of becoming, evolving, and changing.

Environment 

• Not defined

Health 

• Heath includes the individual’s perceptions of health and the absence of disease.

Nursing 

• An interpersonal process whereby the professional nurse practitioner assists an individual, family, or community to prevent or cope with the experience of illness and suffering, and if necessary, to find meaning in these experiences.