Hildegard Peplau - Nursing Theorist
September 1st, 1909 to March 17th, 1999
"Man is an organism that lives in an unstable equilibrium (i.e., psychological, psyiological, and social fluidity)
and life is the process of striving in the direction of stable equilibrium, i.e., a fixed pattern that is never reached except in death". (Peplau, 1952)
Leddy,S. & Pepper, J.M. (1998). Nursing models and theories. Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing,
4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 184-186.
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