Ida jean orlando pelletier biography channel

History and Background

In the s, governmental grants became available for studies integrating mental health concepts into nursing curricula.

Yale University received such a National Institute of Mental Health grant and Ida Orlando became project investigator. Whereas nursing theories were most often developed deductively in the s, Orlando was the first to develop theory inductively in an empirical study of nursing practice.

For 3 years she observed and recorded what she saw and heard in interactions between patients and nurses (Orlando, ; Pelletier, ).

After examining records, Orlando was able to categorize them as “good” and “bad” nursing.

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Orlando asked nurses with dissimilar views, experience, and education to place each record into one of the categories she had initially identified. All the nurses agreed with Orlando’s categorization. Orlando believed that if they all agreed, then the record’s anecdotal content contained “what