Nursing Theories and Concepts Quiz

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How does Martha E. Rogers define human beings?

As separate parts with no specific characteristics
As irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional energy fields with specific characteristics (correct)
As mechanical aggregates with individual characteristics
As disembodied entities with no specific characteristics

How does Martha E. Rogers perceive people and their environment?

As irreducible energy fields integral with one another and continuously creative in their evolution (correct)
As mechanical aggregates with no connection to the environment
As static and unchanging in their interaction with the environment
As separate and independent entities

How does Martha E. Rogers define health in her earlier writings?

As a mechanical state with no connection to wellness
As absence of any characteristics
As passive health symbolizing wellness and the absence of disease (correct)
As a term with no clear definition

What term does Martha E. Rogers later suggest as a better alternative to 'health'?

Wellness (A) Signup and view all the answers

How does Martha E. Rogers define environment?

As an irreducible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics different from those of the parts (D) Signup and view all the answers

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Martha E. Rogers defines a unitary human being as an irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics that are specific to the whole. Human beings are not disembodied entities, nor are they mechanical aggregates. Man is a unified whole possessing his own integrity and manifesting characteristics that are more than and different from the sum of his parts. People and their environment are perceived as irreducible energy fields integral with one another and continuously creative in their evolution. Signup and view all the answers

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Martha E. Rogers uses the term passive health to symbolize wellness and the absence of disease and major illness. Her promotion of positive health connotes direction in helping people with opportunities for rhythmic consistency. Later, she wrote that wellness is a much better term, because the term health is very ambiguous. Signup and view all the answers

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Martha E. Rogers defines environment as an irreducible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics different from those of the parts. Signup and view all the answers

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Martha E. Rogers uses the term health in many of her earlier writings without clearly defining the term. Health is an expression of the life process. Traits and behaviors result from the simultaneous interaction of human and environmental domains, and health and disease are part of the same continuum. Signup and view all the answers

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Martha E. Rogers defines a unitary human being as an irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics that are specific to the whole. Human beings are not disembodied entities, nor are they mechanical aggregates. Man is a unified whole possessing his own integrity and manifesting characteristics that are more than and different from the sum of his parts. People and their environment are perceived as irreducible energy fields integral with one another and continuously creative in their evolution. Signup and view all the answers