Hildegard Peplau's Role In Nursing

In the nursing profession unfortunately, there are multiple phenomena of concern for the nurses. One of the major phenomena of concern for a nurse that works in the hospital setting is the readmission of elderly patients. Another one of these phenomena of concern that is specific to the emergency room and inpatient psychiatric units is psychiatric patients that are boarding in the emergency room waiting for a psychiatric bed to become available and the patient not having a therapeutic environment. This continues to be a topic of concern all over the world with the increase in patients with mental health illness and not enough psychiatric hospitals and beds for all these patients. In my practice, I have attempted to solve both of these phenomena

One of the major concern for anyone that is working in the hospital or an acute care setting is readmission of the elderly patients. This is something that can be solved with better discharge teaching and instruction and also longer stays in the hospital so that the patient can fully recover from his or her illness. Another phenomena of concern that is specific to the emergency room is that psychiatric patients that are boarding in the emergency room waiting for a psychiatric bed to become available that are not in a therapeutic environment. Both of these phenomena of concerns can integrate Hildegard Peplau’s theory of nurse to patient relationship (McEwen & Wills, 2014, p. 30). In order to solve these phenomena of concern it is important for the nurse to have a good rapport with the patient he or she is taking care of. The topic of the psychiatric patient boarding is the phenomena of concern I want to use for my final project, this is a topic that I am passionate about. I know I went into nursing to help people and by helping to solve some of the phenomena of concern that nurses have in the health care field I am able to help the patient receive better quality