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Joyce Travelbee
Human-To-Human Relationship Model
Joyce Travel bee is a psychiatric nurse, educator and writer born in 1926. She
defined the following terms:
Nursing as:
Person as:
A human being.
Analysis: A human being is a unique, irreplaceable individual who is in continuous
process of becoming, evolving and changing. I certainly agree with Travelbees point of
view which states that patients must be considered as unified whole having its own
unique characteristics which cannot be just by merely considering the parts. Through
this, nurses will be able to provide a holistic, individualized and effective nursing care to
every individual. Nurses are considered as a human being so it is definitely right to treat
other people as a human being as well. Travelbee believes the nursing goals require the
foundation of a genuine human-to-human relationship between the patient and the
nurse, which can only be established by a healthy and consistent interaction process.
This process has five phases: the initial meeting or original encounter, the visibility of
personal and emerging identities, empathy, sympathy, and establishing mutual
understanding and rapport. This five phases are essential to the establishment of a
good nurse-patient relationship which aims to provide better care/interventions.
Role of Nurses