JOSEPHINE E. PATERSON and LORETTA T. ZDERAD
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Dr. Josephine Paterson is originally from the east coast and Dr. Loretta Zderad is from the mid-west.
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They both were graduates of diploma schools and subsequently earned their bachelor's degree in Nursing Education.
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Dr. Paterson did her graduate work at Johns Hopkins and Dr. Zderad did hers at Catholic University.
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In the mid-fifties, they were both employed at The Catholic University and were assigned the task of working together to create a new program that would encompass the community health component and the psychiatric component of the graduate program. Subsequently, they developed a collaboration and dialogue and friendship that have lasted for almost 40 years.
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Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad retired in 1985 and moved South where they are currently enjoying life.
Humanistic Nursing
Josephine E. Paterson and Loretta T. Zderad’s book, Humanistic Nursing was published in 1976 and republished in 1988.
Major Concepts
Key Concepts
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They believe that the theory of science of nursing develops from the lived experiences of the nurse and the person receiving the care.
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“ Theory is the articulated vision of experience” (Zderad, 1978, p.45).
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Humanistic nursing is concerned with phenomenological experiences of individuals, the exploration of human experience.
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Phenomenologicnursology is a methodology for understanding and describing nursing situations. It is concerned with the nature of the facts and what the mean to the individual.
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“Man is an individual being necessarily related to other men in time and space. As every men for his birth and development, interdependence is inherent in the human situation,and human existence is co-existence” (Paterson &Zderad, 1976/1988, p.15).
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People need information and options. Individuals and groups need opportunities to make their own choices.
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Individuals have the potential for well-being but also for more-being. Well being implies a steady state, whereas more-being refers to being in the process of becoming all that is humanly possible ( Paterson and Zderad, 1978).
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“The nursing situation is a particular kind of human situation in which the interhuman relating is purposely directed toward nurturing the well-being or more-being of a person with perceived needs related to health-illness quality of living” (Paterson &Zderad, 1976/1988, p.18).
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Suggested three concepts that together provide the basis of nursing: dialogue, community and phenomenologicnursology.
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Nursing is a lived dialogue.
Developed 5 phases in Phenomenologic approach to nursing:
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Preparation of the nurse knower for coming to know.
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Nurse knowing the other intuitively.
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Nurse knowing the other scientifically.
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Nurse complimentarily synthesizing known others.
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Succession within the nurse from the many to the parodoxical one.
References:
Humanistic Nursing Theory: Josephine E. Paterson and Loretta T. Zderad. (2014). In Prezi. Retrieved from https://prezi.com/wluuzrylv3nz/humanistic-nursing-theory-josephine-paterson-and-loretta-zd/
Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad. (2010). In Nurses Info. Retrieved from http://www.nurses.info/nursing_theory_person_paterson_zderad.htm
Julia B. George (4th edition): Nursing Theories The Base for Professional Nuring Practice, chapter 17 pp. 301-315
