By Danii and Kenn

Guerrero, Daniel James | Suyat, Kenneth Roie

Joyce Travelbee
Joyce Travelbee was a well
known nursing theorist. And
by context, She developed the
Interpersonal Theory of
Nursing, or the Human-to-
Human Relationship Model
 The Theory
The Human-to-Human
Relationship Model. Joyce
Travelbee believed that everything
the nurse (as a human) said or did
with an ill person (as a human)
helped to fulfill the purpose of
nursing. The nurse and the patient
are human beings, relating to each
other. The process is that of
interaction.
The Vision
Travelbee's grand theory of
Human-to-Human Relationships
provides nurses with a foundation
necessary to connect
therapeutically with other human
beings. The assumptions involve
humans, who are nurses, relating
to humans who are suffering, are
in distress, or have the potential to
suffer.
The Impact
Joyce Travelbee, a nurse theorist of
historical significance, set about to
provide the basis for such
discovery. In her grand theory,
the Human-to-Human
Relationship, Travelbee (1971)
writes: 'Every human being suffers
because he is a human being, and
suffering is an intrinsic aspect of
the human condition.'
 Original Encounter
Nurse Patient

First impression by the nurse of the

sick person and vice-versa. Commonly
stereotyped on traditional roles

 Emerging Identities

Nurse Patient

the time when relationship begins.

The nurse and patient perceives each
others uniqueness

 Empathy
Nurse Patient

the ability to share in the person’s

experience
 Sympathy
Nurse Patient

when the nurse wants to lessen the cause of

patient’s suffering.
It goes beyond empathy—'When one
sympathises, one is involved but not
incapacitated by the involvement.'

 Rapport
Nurse
Patient

Rapport is described as nursing interventions that lessens

the patient’s suffering.
- Relation as human being to human being
- 'A nurse is able to establish rapport because she possesses
the necessary knowledge and skills required to assist ill
persons and because she is able to perceive, respond to and
appreciate the uniqueness of the ill human being.'

 Practice
Hospice – self-actualising life experience. Assumption of the sick role. Meaning of life and sickness and death.
Education
It teaches nurses to understand the meaning of illness and suffering.
Research
Applied in the theory of caring cancer patients.
Usefulness of the Model
It is useful because of its ability to describe, explain, predict and control a phenomena.
Explains the variables that affect the establishment of a therapeutic relationship between nurses and patients.

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