Martha Rogers's Nursing Theory PDF

Martha Rogers ============= **Background** - Martha E. Rogers was born in 1914 in Dallas, Texas. - She received her nursing diploma from the Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing in 1936, then earned her - Public Health Nursing degree from George Peabody College in Tennessee...

Martha Rogers ============= **Background** - Martha E. Rogers was born in 1914 in Dallas, Texas. - She received her nursing diploma from the Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing in 1936, then earned her - Public Health Nursing degree from George Peabody College in Tennessee in 1937. - Her Master's degree was from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1945, and her Doctorate in Nursing was - earned from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1954. Rogers died on March 13, 1994. - Rogers worked as a professor at New York University's School of Nursing. - She was also a Fellow for the American Academy of Nursing. - Her publications include: - - - - Wholeness: human being is considered as united whole - Openness: A person and his environment are continuously exchanging energy with each other - 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 HOMEODYNAMIC PRINCIPLES ----------------------- - **Resonance -** is an arrangement for human and environment that undergo transformation. - **Helicy -** is the nature of change is unpredictable, continuous and innovative. - **Integrality -** is the energy fields of human and environment in a continuous mutual process **Roger's Nursing Metaparadigm** - **Unitary Human being** - **Health** − symbolize wellness and the absence of disease and major illness. - **Environment** - **Nursing** − both art and science and the nurse is a factor in healing environment. **Implications of Rogers theory** - **Nursing Practice** - **Education** − That students have individual personalities and patterns to their work. − They are all unitary human beings and should be interacted with differently - **Research** **Analysis of the theory** - **Clarity** - **Simplicity** - **Generality** - **Importance**