Travelbee’s

Human to Human
Relationship
 Thought that nursing care needed "humanistic
revolution" - a return to focus on the caring function
towards ill person

1926, New Orleans, BSN at Louisiana

Louisiana, United State University in
States 1956

Best known for her

Psychiatric nurse,
Human to Human
educator, and writer
Relationship
● Person
- define as human being.
- Unique, Irreplaceable individual who is in the continous
process of becoming, evolving, and changing.

● Environment
- Not clearly defined.
- Defined human conditions and life experiences encountered
by people as sufferings, hope, , and illness.
● Health
- Defined as human being

● Subjective health
- Individual defined state of well-being in accord with self-
appraisal of physical-emotional-spiritual status

● Objective health
- An abscence of discernible disease, disability or defect as
measured by physical examination, Laboratory test,
assessment by a spiritual director or a psychological
counselor.
● Nursing
- 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.
PHASES OF THE NURSE-
PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
 Original Emerging Empathy
Encounter Identities

First Impression by Describe by the Describe as the

the nurse of the nurse and patient ability to share
sick person and perceiving each in the person’s
vice versa other as unique experience
individuals
( Link relationships
begins to form).
 Sympathy Rapport

Happens when the Nursing interventions

nurse wants to lessen that lessen the cause
the the patient’s of the patient’s
suffering suffering
- One is involved but is - Sick person shows
not incapacitated by trust and confidence
the involvement. in nurse.
 Human to human Relationship

Rapport
Patient&Nurse

Nurse-------sympathy-------patient

Nurse-------empathy-------patient

Nurse-------emerging identities-------patient

Nurse-------original encounter-------patient