Theory of Interpersonal Relations in Future Practice MSN-FNP, UT Arlington NURS 5327

Theory of Interpersonal Relations in Future Practice The purpose of Peplaus Theory of Interpersonal Relations is to educate nurses on how to form a quick building long or short-term relationship with a patient. Education of new nurses often centers around the physiology of nursing and the medical disease process. Somewhere between the Florence Nightingale era and now the art of communication has been steadily declining. Society is becoming less interactive and withdrawn behind their electronic world and verbal-in-person communication has become less prevalent. Peplau (1997) defines Interpersonal relations is a conceptual framework derived in large part from empirical study of...