Humanistic Nursing
HUMANISTIC
NURSING THEORY
By:
MARY JOHN L. RENONG, RN
August 10, 2013
Dr. Loretta Zderad Dr. Josephine Paterson
I. BIOGRAPHY Josephine Paterson was born on the 1st of September of 1924 in Freeport, New York. Loretta and Josephine spent their early school years during the depression of the 1930's. Josephine G. Paterson was also learning the role of a nurse as well as work responsibilities during this same time period. She had graduated in August of 1945 with a diploma from Lenox Hill School of Nursing in New York. She finished a couple of years earlier than Loretta Zderad and within a year of WW II ending. Nine years later (1954, August) Josephine Paterson graduated with her Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Education from St. John's University in Brooklyn, New York. After moving to Baltimore, Maryland she completed in June, a year later, with her Master's in Public Health from the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. While Paterson was starting her Bachelor's and Master's programs, Loretta Zderad completed her Master's in Science in Nursing Education with a psychiatric nursing major from Catholic University in June of 1952. It was during the 1950's and 1960's that Zderad and Paterson did their formative nursing work, the basis from which they would draw from in formulating their Humanistic Nursing Theory and further refinement in the 70's and 80's. Paterson worked in the public and mental health field and Zderad in psychiatric health with leanings toward philosophy. Zderad received a PhD in Philosophy in 1968 from Georgetown University and Paterson her DNS in 1969 from Boston University with her specialty of psychiatric mental health. Several of their students have gone on to further Paterson and Zderad's theory and add to the theoretical base. Paterson and Zderad presented and published most of their work in the decades of the 1960's and 1970's. Dr. Josephine Paterson
NURSING THEORY
By:
MARY JOHN L. RENONG, RN
August 10, 2013
Dr. Loretta Zderad Dr. Josephine Paterson
I. BIOGRAPHY Josephine Paterson was born on the 1st of September of 1924 in Freeport, New York. Loretta and Josephine spent their early school years during the depression of the 1930's. Josephine G. Paterson was also learning the role of a nurse as well as work responsibilities during this same time period. She had graduated in August of 1945 with a diploma from Lenox Hill School of Nursing in New York. She finished a couple of years earlier than Loretta Zderad and within a year of WW II ending. Nine years later (1954, August) Josephine Paterson graduated with her Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Education from St. John's University in Brooklyn, New York. After moving to Baltimore, Maryland she completed in June, a year later, with her Master's in Public Health from the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. While Paterson was starting her Bachelor's and Master's programs, Loretta Zderad completed her Master's in Science in Nursing Education with a psychiatric nursing major from Catholic University in June of 1952. It was during the 1950's and 1960's that Zderad and Paterson did their formative nursing work, the basis from which they would draw from in formulating their Humanistic Nursing Theory and further refinement in the 70's and 80's. Paterson worked in the public and mental health field and Zderad in psychiatric health with leanings toward philosophy. Zderad received a PhD in Philosophy in 1968 from Georgetown University and Paterson her DNS in 1969 from Boston University with her specialty of psychiatric mental health. Several of their students have gone on to further Paterson and Zderad's theory and add to the theoretical base. Paterson and Zderad presented and published most of their work in the decades of the 1960's and 1970's. Dr. Josephine Paterson