Ernestine Wiedenbach

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Ernestine Wiedenbach (born August 18, 1900 in Hamburg ; † March 8, 1996 in Florida ) was an American nursing theorist and university professor with a German migration background. They formulated in 1954 in her book "Clinical nursing: A helping art." (Eng .: Clinical Nursing - a helping art ) a nursing theory, which is also called the theory Wiedenbach. She is considered one of the pioneers of American nursing theory.

Career

Wiedenbach left Germany with her family in 1909 and emigrated to New York. She first attended Wellesley College in Boston, where she received her BA in 1923. She then studied nursing at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing until 1925 . After various positions in hospitals and public health care , she attended evening classes at the Teachers College of Columbia University . She graduated with an MA in public health care in 1934 . At the age of 45, Wiedenbach trained as a midwife at the Maternity Center Association School for Nurse-Midwives in New York , from 1946 she taught at this school until she moved to Yale University as a lecturer in maternity care in 1952 . In 1954 she became an assistant professor and in 1956 an associate professor . There Wiedenbach taught together with Ida J. Orlando and maintained close academic contact with the philosophers James Dickoff and Pamela James , with whom they worked together in the field of nursing philosophy.

Nursing theory work

In the mid-1960s, Wiedenbach began developing a nursing theory based on her experiences within her nursing practice. In 1964 she published the book "Clinical Nursing a Helping Art", 1969 (dt. Followed "Meeting the Realities in Clinical Teaching" reality Middle clinical teaching ) that are considered their most important writings. She put the focus on the needs of those in need of care and thus broke away from the previously medically oriented perspective. She also developed the concept of validation, which became an important part of Orlando's nursing process theory . Due to the close cooperation between the two theorists, it is often difficult to precisely assign the concepts formulated by the respective author, even if the two theories differ significantly in detail.

Wiedenbach retired in 1966, but continued to work as a consultant and lecturer until 1976. She died in Florida in 1996.

Publications

  • Ernestine Wiedenbach: The helping art of nursing . American Journal of Nursing, 63 (11), 54-57, 1963.

literature

  • Afaf Ibrahim Meleis : Theoretical Nursing: Development and Progress . 4th edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, London, Mexico City, New York, St. Louis, Sao Paulo, Sydney, 2006, ISBN 0-7817-3673-0 , Our Domain and Our Pioneers, On Interaction Ernestine Wiedenbach (English).
  • Kathleen Sitzman, Lisa Wright Eichelberger: Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists: A Creative Beginning . Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0-7637-4766-1 , 8 - Ernestine Weidenbach's Helping Art of Clinical Nursing, pp. 41-48 (English).
  • Thomas Nowak: The need for help and the helping art of nursing . Ernestine Wiedenbach's nursing theory. In: The care letter . tape 8/2001 , no. 58 . Schlütersche, September 11, 2001, ISSN  1433-2795 , 8 - Ernestine Weidenbach's Helping Art of Clinical Nursing, p. 2–8 (English, pflegen-online.de [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christine R. Auer: Ernestine Wiedenbach , in: Hubert Kolling (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon zur Pflegeegeschichte. “Who was who in nursing history” , Volume 7, hpsmedia Nidda 2015.
  2. ^ Afaf Ibrahim Meleis : Theoretical Nursing: Development and Progress . 4th edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006, ISBN 0-7817-3673-0 , pp. 373-382 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Wiedenbach, Ernestine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American nursing theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1996
Place of death Florida