Joyce Travelbee
Joyce Travelbee
Joyce Travelbee
Born in 1926, she completed her basic nursing preparation in 1946 at Charity Hospital School of Nursing in New Orleans. She earned a B.S degree in nursing education from Louisiana State University in 1956 and an M.S degree in nursing from Yale in 1959. In the summer of 1973, Travelbee began a doctoral program in Florida; however, she was unable to complete the program because she died later that year. She died at the age of 47 after a brief illness, leaving no survivors. Travelbee began her career as a nursing educator in 1952, teaching psychiatric nursing at Depaul Hospital Affiliate School, New Orleans, while working on her baccalaureate degree. She also taught psychiatric nursing at Charity Hospital School of Nursing, Louisiana State University, New York University in New York City, and the University of Mississippi in Jackson. In 1970, she was named Project Director at Hotel Dieu School of Nursing in New Orleans. At the time of her death, Travelbee was the director of graduate educate at Lousiana State University School of Nursing. Travelbee began publishing articles in nursing journals in 1963. Her first book, Interpersonal Aspects of Nursing, was published in 1966 and 1971, a second book, Intervention in Psychiatric Nursin: Process in the the One-to-One Relationship, was published in 1969. It was edited by Doona and published in 1979 as Travelbee Intervention in Psychiatric Nursing.