Martha Rogers – Flashcards
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time
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mid 1900s
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Established
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5 year BSN program at NYU
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Publications
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Educational Revolution in Nursing, Reveille in Nursing, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing
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Theory
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Theory of Unitary Human Beings
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Roger's Theory of Unitary Human Beings focuses on
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mutual process of human and environment, rather than health and illness
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Key concepts of Unitary Human Beings
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energy fields, openness, pattern, pan dimensionality, hemodynamic
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openness
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no barrier that inhibits energy flow between fields (environment and person)
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pattern
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identifying behaviors/ qualities/characteristics of energy field that change constantly
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pan dimensionality
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infinite domains without limits
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hemodynamics, 3 principles
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continuous and creative change, integrality, resonance, helicy
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integrality
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CHANGES happens by repatterining of human and environmental fields by resonance waves
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resonancy
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RHYTHM characterizing human field and environmental fields changing from lower to high freq
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helicy
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spiral development, increasing DIVERSITY in human and environmental field patterns
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slinky
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evolving rhythm of life, no going back to same place as before
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Therapeutic Touch based on
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concept of energy fields, used to assess and feel fields so they can be manipulated to help pt deal with pain and illness
