o Hildegard E.

Peplau was an American nursing theorist, known to many as the “Mother of

Psychiatric Nursing”. She help in the professionalization of Nursing. She also worked as
a staff nurse and served in the Army Nurse Corps. Peplau developed the Theory of
Interpersonal Relations which stresses the nurse’s ability to understand their own
behaviour to help others identify perceived difficulties. Later on, she was honoured as
a “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing. On 1999, Peplau peacefully
died in her sleep at her home in California.

o Ida Jean Orlando Pelletier was a nursing theorist and researcher. She dedicated her early
life in the field of Public Health Nursing and Mental Health consultation. She developed
the Nursing Process Theory. She carried out the study by observing and analysing 2000
nurse-patient contacts. It stresses the professional function of nursing as finding out and
meeting the patient’s immediate need for help. Orlando had a diverse career, working as a
practitioner, consultant, researcher, and educator in nursing. She was recognized as a
“Nursing Living Legend” by the Massachusetts Registered Nurse Association. She died
on 2007 at the age of 81.

o Joyce Travelbee dealt with the interpersonal aspects of Nursing, and developed the
Human-to-Human Relationship Model. She based the assumption of her model on the
concepts of existentialism by Kierkegaard and logo therapy by Frankl. The theory
proposed that the goal of nursing was to assist an individual in preventing or coping with
the experiences of illness and suffering, and find meaning in these experiences, with the
presence of hope. It is explicit about the spiritual values or philosophical belief of the
nurse and patient. Travelbee was not only a theorist but also a psychiatric nurse, educator,
and writer as well. Unfortunately, she tragically died young at the age of 47.

o Lydia Hall was a nursing theorist who developed the Core, Care, Cure model of nursing.
A theory of long term care and chronic disease control. She used her knowledge of
psychiatry and nursing experiences as a framework for formulating her theory. She spent
her early years as a registered nurse. She soon became a professor and also a research
analyst. Aside from being a nurse, Hall also authored 21 publications on Nursing. She
was included in the Hall of Fame of the American Nurses Association (ANA). But died
on February 27, 1969, at Queens Hospital in New York.

o Faye Glenn Abdellah is a nursing researcher who developed the “Twenty-One Nursing
Problems,” which is based on the problem-solving method. She vowed that she would
learn nursing and become a professional nurse. She was the first woman nurse officer to
serve as a Deputy Surgeon General. With her advanced education, she could have been a
doctor. However, she explained that she really wanted nursing, which is a caring
profession. Abdellah worked as a health nurse at a private school and was required to
teach a class. Up to this day, her contributions to nursing have been recognized with
professional and academic honours.