Martha Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Being
I. Introduction
The Science of Unitary Human Beings is a grand nursing theory developed by Martha E. Rogers. Martha Rogers was born on May 12, 1914 in Dallas, Texas. She is the oldest of four children of Bruce Taylor Rogers and Lucy Mulholland Keener Rogers. She began college at the University of Tennessee, studying pre-med (1931-1933) and withdrew due to pressure that medicine was an unsuitable career for a woman. She received a diploma from the Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing in 1936. The following year she received an undergraduate degree in public health nursing at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. She received an Master of Arts in public health nursing from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1945, an Master of Public Health in 1952 and a Doctorate in Nursing in 1954, both from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She was a Professor Emerita (Consultant Speaker) in the Division of Nursing at New York University. She died March 13, 1994.
According to Rogers, Nursing is both a science and an art. The uniqueness of nursing, like that of any other science, lies in the phenomenon central to its focus. Rogers theorized that nurse 's long established concern with the people and the world they live is in a natural forerunner of an organized abstract system encompassing people and their environments. She states that humans are dynamic energy fields in continuous exchange with environmental fields, both of which are infinite.
II. The Science of Unitary Human Beings
Roger’s Concepts * Wholeness refers to the state in which the human being is regarded as a unified whole which is more than and different from the sum of its parts. * Universe of Open Systems The energy fields are open and are allowing continuous exchange with other fields. * Unidirectionality refers to where the life process exists along a irreversible space and continuum. * Pattern identifies energy fields. It is perceived as a single wave;
The Science of Unitary Human Beings is a grand nursing theory developed by Martha E. Rogers. Martha Rogers was born on May 12, 1914 in Dallas, Texas. She is the oldest of four children of Bruce Taylor Rogers and Lucy Mulholland Keener Rogers. She began college at the University of Tennessee, studying pre-med (1931-1933) and withdrew due to pressure that medicine was an unsuitable career for a woman. She received a diploma from the Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing in 1936. The following year she received an undergraduate degree in public health nursing at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. She received an Master of Arts in public health nursing from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1945, an Master of Public Health in 1952 and a Doctorate in Nursing in 1954, both from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She was a Professor Emerita (Consultant Speaker) in the Division of Nursing at New York University. She died March 13, 1994.
According to Rogers, Nursing is both a science and an art. The uniqueness of nursing, like that of any other science, lies in the phenomenon central to its focus. Rogers theorized that nurse 's long established concern with the people and the world they live is in a natural forerunner of an organized abstract system encompassing people and their environments. She states that humans are dynamic energy fields in continuous exchange with environmental fields, both of which are infinite.
II. The Science of Unitary Human Beings
Roger’s Concepts * Wholeness refers to the state in which the human being is regarded as a unified whole which is more than and different from the sum of its parts. * Universe of Open Systems The energy fields are open and are allowing continuous exchange with other fields. * Unidirectionality refers to where the life process exists along a irreversible space and continuum. * Pattern identifies energy fields. It is perceived as a single wave;
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