Ida Jean Orlando
Ida Jean Orlando: Nurse Patient Relationships
Jennifer Liu
Utica College
Ida Jean Orlando: Nurse Patient Relationships
“Nursing, as a noble profession, occurs through a process that involves the nurse and the individual in need of the nurses’ help” (Schmieding, 2002). The development of several types of nursing theories aide today’s nurses to become more compassionate, nurturing and effective communicators in the patient’s care. The focus may be on the patient, nurse, or both nurse and patient. In particular, Orlando’s theory focuses on the nurse-patient relationship, how the relationship develops, and what occurs during the process of caring the patient. In the following, we will learn about Orlando’s educational influences, discuss and explore the recreation of Orlando’s theories.
Ida Jean Orlando was born a first-generation Italian American on August 12, 1926. She received her nursing diploma from New York Medical College, Lower Fifth Avenue Hospital School of Nursing. While attending Saint John’s University for her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, she also worked in Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn. After being dissatisfied with her experiences in nursing care by responding only to protocol and the rigidness of the institution’s policies; she eventually completed a Master’s of Science in Mental Health Consultation in Nursing from Teacher’s College, Columbia University in hopes to make a difference. She immediately became an associate professor and director of the Graduate Program in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing at Yale University in 1954. One of her other roles as a project investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health grant entitled: Integration of Mental Health Concepts in a Basic Nursing Curriculum led her to the discovery of her theory. Orlando is one of the first theorists who wrote about the process of nursing that was based on her own research. She recognized that nursing could not be a profession unless it had a distinct
Jennifer Liu
Utica College
Ida Jean Orlando: Nurse Patient Relationships
“Nursing, as a noble profession, occurs through a process that involves the nurse and the individual in need of the nurses’ help” (Schmieding, 2002). The development of several types of nursing theories aide today’s nurses to become more compassionate, nurturing and effective communicators in the patient’s care. The focus may be on the patient, nurse, or both nurse and patient. In particular, Orlando’s theory focuses on the nurse-patient relationship, how the relationship develops, and what occurs during the process of caring the patient. In the following, we will learn about Orlando’s educational influences, discuss and explore the recreation of Orlando’s theories.
Ida Jean Orlando was born a first-generation Italian American on August 12, 1926. She received her nursing diploma from New York Medical College, Lower Fifth Avenue Hospital School of Nursing. While attending Saint John’s University for her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, she also worked in Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn. After being dissatisfied with her experiences in nursing care by responding only to protocol and the rigidness of the institution’s policies; she eventually completed a Master’s of Science in Mental Health Consultation in Nursing from Teacher’s College, Columbia University in hopes to make a difference. She immediately became an associate professor and director of the Graduate Program in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing at Yale University in 1954. One of her other roles as a project investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health grant entitled: Integration of Mental Health Concepts in a Basic Nursing Curriculum led her to the discovery of her theory. Orlando is one of the first theorists who wrote about the process of nursing that was based on her own research. She recognized that nursing could not be a profession unless it had a distinct
References: Orlando, I.J. (1990). The dynamic nurse-patient relationship: Function, process, and principles. New York: National League for Nursing. Orlando, I. J. (1972). The discipline and teaching of nursing process: An evaluative study. New York: G. P Putnam. Schmieding, N.J. (2002). Nursing theorists and their work. Ida Jean Orlando (Pelletier): Nursing process theory. 2002, 6th Ed. 431-451. St. Louis: Mosby.