Ernestine Wiedenbach

Ernestine Wiedenbach ( born August 18, 1900 in Hamburg, † 8 March 1996 in Florida) was an American Pflegetheoretikerin and high school teacher. They formulated in 1954 in her book "Clinical nursing: A helping art. " ( Dt: Clinical Nursing - a helping art ) a nursing theory, which is also called the theory Wiedenbach. It is regarded as one of the pioneers of American nursing theory.

Career

Weidenbach left with her family in 1909 Germany and emigrated to New York. They first visited the Wellesley College in Boston, where he received a BA in 1923. Afterwards she studied until 1925 at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Nursing. After working in hospitals and public health, she attended evening classes at the Teachers College of Columbia University. She finished her studies in 1934 with a M. A. in public health care. With 45 years Weidenbach was trained at the Maternity Center Association School for Nurse - Midwives in New York as a midwife, in 1946, she taught at the school until she joined in 1952 as a lecturer in maternity care to Yale University. In 1954 she became an assistant professor, associate professor in 1956. There Weidenbach taught together with Ida J. Orlando and kept in close contact with the academic philosopher James Dickoff and Pamela James, together with whom worked in the field of nursing philosophy.

Theoretical nursing work

Mid-1960 Weidenbach began with the development of a nursing theory, based on their experiences within their nursing practice. In 1964 she published the book " Clinical Nursing A Helping Art", followed in 1969 "Meeting the Realities in Clinical Teaching " (Eng. Middle reality of clinical teaching ), which are regarded as their most important writings. She put in the perspective on the needs of the patient and broke up so far from medically - oriented perspective. They also developed the concept of validation, which was an important part of the nursing process theory Orlando. Due to the close cooperation between the two theorists is often an accurate classification formulated concepts of the respective author difficult, even though the two theories differ in detail clearly.

Weidenbach was commissioned in 1966 retired, but worked until 1976 continued as a consultant and lecturer. She died in 1996 in Florida.