Martha Rogers' Unitary Human Being Theory PDF

Martha Roger’s Science of Unitary Human Being Theory Department of Nursing Dr. Lolit H. Avanzado Brief Biography of Martha Roger • • • • • • Martha Rogers was born on May 12, 1914, in Dallas Texas, sharing a birthday with Florence Nightingale. She received her nursing diploma from Knoxville Gene...

Martha Roger’s Science of Unitary Human Being Theory Department of Nursing Dr. Lolit H. Avanzado Brief Biography of Martha Roger • • • • • • Martha Rogers was born on May 12, 1914, in Dallas Texas, sharing a birthday with Florence Nightingale. She received her nursing diploma from Knoxville General Hospital in 1936. Bachelors in Nursing from George Peabody College in Nashville in 1937 1952, She received her Masters in Public Health (MPH) from John Hopkins University 1954, Masters in Public Health Nursing Supervision from Teachers College, Columbia University 1954, Doctor of Science from John Hopkins University, Baltimore • • • • She became a professor and head of nursing division at New York 1954-1975 Became a Professor Emerita in 1979 and published 200 articles and 3 books She passed away in 1994 at the age of 79 She became an American Nurses Association Hall of Fame Inductee in 1996. Science of Unitary Human Beings • • • • Her theory consist of the following: 5 Assumption 4 Major Concepts 3 Major principles Focus of Unitary Human Being • • • Nursing as both a science and an art as it provides a way to view the unitary human being, who is integral with the universe. The unitary human being and his or her environment are one. Nursing focuses on people and the manifestations that emerge from the mutual human-environmental field process. Two Dimensions of the Theory • • The science of nursing, which is the knowledge specific to the field of nursing that comes from scientific research The art of nursing, which involves using the science of nursing creatively to help better the lives of the patient. • Her model addresses the importance of the environment as an integral part of the patient and uses that knowledge to help nurses blend the science and art of nursing to ensure patients have a smooth recovery and get back to the best health possible. Assumptions Assumptions 1. Wholeness—Man is a unified whole possessing his own integrity and manifesting characteristics that are more than and different from the sum of his parts. 2. Openness—Man, and the environment are continuously exchanging matter and energy with one another, and human being is visible only when particulars disappears. 3. Unidirectionality—The life process evolves irreversibly and unidirectionally along the spacetime continuum. 4. Pattern and organization– identify the man and reflect his innovative wholeness. 5. Sentience and thought—Man is characterized by the capacity for abstraction and imagery, language and thought sensation, and emotion. Concepts Energy Field • • • Is the fundamental unit of both the living and the non-living. It provides a way to view people and the environment as irreducible wholes. The energy fields continuously vary in intensity, density, and extent. Pattern • • The distinguishing characteristic of an energy field perceived as a single waves. It is an abstraction and gives identity to the field. Openness • • There are no boundaries that stop energy flow between the human and environmental fields. It refers to qualities exhibited by open systems; human beings and their environment are open systems. Pan-dimensionality • • is defined as a “non-linear domain without spatial or temporal attributes.” Humans’ parameters to describe events are arbitrary, and the present is relative; there is no temporal ordering of lives. Principles of Homeodynamics Homeodynamics • Should be understood as a dynamic version of homeostasis (a relatively steady state of internal operation in the living system). • Homeodynamics principles propose a way of viewing unitary human beings Resonance/Resonancy • An ordered arrangement of rhythm characterizing both the human and environmental fields that undergo continuous dynamic alteration/change in the human environmental process. Helicy • • • Continuous, innovative, unpredictable increasing diversity of human and environmental field patterns Human do not regress but become increasingly diverse and complex Sheds positive light on ageing Integrality • Human beings and their environment are inseparable, sequential changes in the life processes are continuous revisions occurring from the interactions between human beings and their environment. Between the two entities, there is a constant mutual interaction and mutual change whereby simultaneous molding is taking place in both at the same time. Nursing Metaparadigm of Unitary Human Being Theory Person and Environment are deeply connected PERSON • Human being are energy field-open system that are continuously connected to the environment • • Human being are infinite with the universe Should not be viewed as parts but rather as a whole ENVIRONMENT • An irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and integral with the human field. HEALTH • • An expression of the life process. It is the characteristics and behavior coming from the mutual, simultaneous interaction of the human and environmental fields, and health and illness are part of the same continuum NURSING • • • • Is a learned profession and is both a science and an art. It is an empirical sciences and, like other sciences, that lies in the phenomenon central to its focus. Nursing focuses on concern with people and the world in which they live—a natural fit for nursing care, as it encompasses people and their environments. The purpose of nursing is to promote health and well-being for all persons. The art of nursing is the creative use of the science of nursing for human betterment. Nursing exists for the care of people and the life process of humans. Science of Unitary Human Beings and Nursing Process Assessment • The total pattern of events at any given point in space-time, simultaneous states of the patient and his or her environment, rhythms of the life process, supplementary data, categorical disease entities, subsystem pathology, and pattern appraisal. • The assessment should be a comprehensive assessment of the human and environmental fields. Voluntary Mutual Patterning • • • • Sharing knowledge Offering choices Empowering the patient Fostering patterning EVALUATION • • • • Repeat pattern appraisal, which includes nutrition, work/leisure activities, wake/sleep cycles, relationships, pain, and fear/hopes Identify dissonance and harmony Validate appraisal with the patient Self-reflection for the patient Conclusion • • • According to the American Nurses Association the Martha Roger’s theory help influenced the development therapeutic touch Therapeutic Touch defined as the energy transmission through the laying on of hands Anyone can use this interventions to help patients • • • Therapeutic touch can help decrease the level of anxiety Improve nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy Decreases bone pain