Joyce Travelbee’s formulation of her Human to Human Relationship Model theory was greatly influenced by her experiences in nursing education and practice in Catholic charity institutions. She concluded that the nursing care rendered to patients in these intitutions lacked compassion. She thought that nursing care needed a “humanistic revolution”- a return to focus on the [...] Read more »
Joyce Travelbee: Biography
Joyce Travelbee, psychiatric nurse, educator and writer, was born in 1926. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing education at Louisiana State University in 1956 and her Master of Science Degree in Nursing from Yale University in 1959. She started a doctoral program in Florida in 1973. Unfortunately, she was not able to finish [...] Read more »