Nursing Theorist: Martha Rogers (The Science of Unitary Human Beings) – Flashcards

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What did Rogers specialize in?
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Public Health Nursing
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Where was Rogers born?
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Dallas, Texas
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When was Rogers born?
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May 12, 1914
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When did Rogers die?
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March 13, 1994
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> This theory views nursing as both a SCIENCE and an ART > The ____________ and his/her environment are one > States that nursing focuses on people and the manifestations that emerge from the mutual human-environmental field process > CHANGE OF PATTERN and the ORGANIZATION OF THE HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL FIELDS is transmitted in WAVES
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Science of Unitary Human Beings
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> Views people and the environment as UNITARY WHOLES > "Potential for process, movement and change" (Leddy, 2004) > Conceptual boundary of all that is > The FUNDAMENTAL UNIT for both living and nonliving > Continuously varies in INTENSITY, DENSITY and EXTENT
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Energy Field
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> The human field and environment field are always exchanging energy > There are no limitations of energy flow between fields > "Human beings ________ participate in energy transformation with the environment, creating mutual change." (Leddy, 2004)
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Openness
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> Defined as: the characteristics of an energy field perceived as a single wave. > "Dynamic process of the human being's life" > "Accessible to the senses" (Alligood and Fawcett, 2004) > Manifestations include: a person's experiences, expressions, perceptions, physical, mental, social and spiritual data
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Pattern
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> A nonlinear domain without spatial or temporal attributes > The term provides the idea of an infinite domain, > Expresses the idea of a unitary whole > "Essentially a spaceless and timeless reality"
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Pan-dimensionality
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> Suggests the way of perceiving unitary human beings > The fundamental unit of the living system in an energy field > Describes nature of the person or environment process of change and growth > 3 main principles: resonance, helicy, and integrality
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Homeodynamic Principles
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> Is the intensity of change > Embraces the continuous variability of human energy field as it evolves > "Ordered arrangement of rhythms characterizing both human and environmental field that undergoes continuous dynamic change in the human-environment process"
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Resonance
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> Describes unpredictable, continuous, nonlinear evolution of energy fields evidenced by non-repeating rhythmicities > Suggests an ordering of the evolutionary emergence > The life process evolve in sequential stages along a curve that has the same general shape
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Helicy
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> Encompasses mutual continuous relationship of the human and environmental fields. > Continuous patterning of human and environment energy fields by resonance waves creating change > Fields are one and integrated, but unique to one another
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Integrality
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> Is a learned profession considered both an art and a science > The study of unitary, irreducible, indivisible human and environment energy fields > The act of nursing guides the interaction of the person and environment to maximize health potential and recovery > Health services should be community based > The art of nursing is the imaginative and creative deployment of nursing knowledge > Purpose of nurses: to promote health and well-being for all persons
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Nursing (Metaparadigm I)
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> Is an open system in continuous process of change with the open system of the environment > Has the ability to participate knowingly in the process of change > A unitary human being is a whole, having its own specific characteristics which cannot be perceived by describing or summarizing the parts > "Irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional (four dimensional) energy field identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics that are specific to the whole and which cannot be predicted from knowledge of the parts"
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Person (Metaparadigm II)
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> Rogers defined it as an expression of the life process > "Characteristics and behavior emerging out of the mutual, simultaneous interaction of the human and environment fields" > Health and illness are part of the same continuum > Events across one's life determine the extent of an individual's maximum health potential
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Health (Metaparadigm III)
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> "Irreducible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and is essential with the human field." > The field coexists and is integral. > Each environmental field is specific to its human field > Both human and environmental field change continuously and creatively > The manifestations from this field are physical patterns and can be identified
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Environment (Metaparadigm IV)
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> Provides abstract philosophical framework to view the unitary human-environmental field phenomenon > Based on theoretical knowledge that guides nursing practice > Professional practice of nursing is creative, imaginative and exists to serve people
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In Practice
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> Rogers articulated clear guidelines for the education of nurses within the Science of Unitary Human Beings > Used to guide curriculum development in all levels of nursing education > Rogers discussed structuring nursing education programs to teach nursing as a science and a learned profession
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In Education
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> Her model provides a stimulus and direction for research and nursing theory development in nursing science > High level of abstraction affects empirical observation and testing > As a result of this, the theory is considered a conceptual model (middle-range theory); not a grand theory
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In Research
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