Martha Rogers' Theory & Nursing Metaparadigm PDF

THE SCIENCE OF UNITARY HUMAN BEING Martha Rogers  LIFE ❖ Born: May 12 , 1914 ; Dallas, Texas, USA ❖ Earned Diploma: Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing (1936) ❖ Masters of Arts in Nursing: Teachers college, Columbia university, New York, 1945 ❖ Mat...

THE SCIENCE OF UNITARY HUMAN BEING Martha Rogers  LIFE ❖ Born: May 12 , 1914 ; Dallas, Texas, USA ❖ Earned Diploma: Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing (1936) ❖ Masters of Arts in Nursing: Teachers college, Columbia university, New York, 1945 ❖ Mater of Public Health in Nursing: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1952 ❖ Doctorate in Nursing : Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1954 ❖ Position: Professor at Division of Nursing, New York University and Consultant, Speaker ❖ Died : March 13, 1994 ❖Theoretical basis of nursing (Rogers 1970) ❖Nursing Science and Art: a prospective (Rogers 1988) ❖Nursing : A science of unitary, irreducible , human beings (1990) ❖ Vision of space based nursing (Rogers 1990) ❖ The belief of the coexistence of the human and the environment has greatly influenced the process of change toward better health ❖ In short, a patient can’t be separated from his or her environment when addressing health and treatment ❖ This view lead and opened Martha E. Rogers theory, known as the “Science of Unitary Human Beings,” which allowed nursing to be considered one of the scientific disciplines ❖ Rogers repeatedly stated that she did noy create a “theory” but rather an abstract system, a science, from which many theories may be derived. ❖ The science of unitary human beings comprises of FIVE ASSUMPTION, FOUR MAJOR CONCEPTS AND THREE MAJOR PRINCIPLES. ❖ Major concepts are: energy field, openness, pattern, and pan dimensionality ❖ Major principles include resonancy, helicy and integrity. It is also known as hemodynamic principles  ASSUMPTIONS ❑ Wholeness→ Human being is considered as united whole ❑ Openness→ A person and his environment are continuously changing ❑ Unidirectionality→ the life process of human being evolves irreversibly and unidirectional i.e. from birth to death ❑ Pattern and organization → Pattern identifies individuals and reflects their innovative wholeness ❑ Sentence and Thought→ humans are the only organisms able to think, imagine, have language and emotions  ENERGY FIELD PAN MAJOR OPENNESS DIMENSIONALITY CONCEPTS OPENESS ENERGY FIELD ❑ It is inevitable part of life. Human and environment both have energy field which is open i.e energy can freely flow between human and environment OPENNESS ❑ There is no boundary or barrier that can inhibit the flow of energy between human and environment which leads to the continuous movement of matter of energy PATTERN ❑ Pattern is defined as the distinguishing characteristics of an energy field perceived as a single waves ❑ “pattern is an abstraction and gives identity to the field”  PAN DIMENSIONALITY ❖ Pan dimensionality is defined as “non linear domain without spatial or temporal attributes ” ❖ Human being are pan dimensional being and have more than three dimension HOMEODYNAMIC PRINCIPLE - Homeodynamics refers to the balance between the dynamic life process and environment - These principles help to view human as unitary human as unitary human as unitary human being - Three principle of homeodynamics Resonancy Helicy Integrality 1. RESONACY  Wave patterns are continuously changing in environmental and human energy fields 2. HELICY  The nature of change is unpredictable, continuous, and an innovative 3. INTEGRALITY  Energy fields of humans and environment are in a continuous mutual process ROGER’S THEORY AND NURSING METAPARADIGM PERSON (UNITARY HUMAN BEING)  A unitary human being is open system which continuously interact with environment. A person cannot be viewed as parts, it should be considered as whole. ENVIRONMENT  It includes the entire energy field other than a person  These energy fields are irreducible , not limited by space and time, identified by its pattern and organization HEALTH  Not clearly defined by Rogers. It is determined by the interaction between energy fields, i.e. human and environments  Bad interaction or misplacing of energy lead to illness NURSING  Nursing exists to serve people  Nursing is both science and art  It is the direct and overriding responsibility to the society