ROSEMARIE RIZZO

PARSE
"Human Becoming Theory"

Parse's Theory of Humanbecoming is

focused on quality of life. RoseMarie Parse's
Theory of Humanbecoming is a theory that
many nurses' utilize in practice daily. It is a
grand theory that focuses on life and
human dignit y. "From the humanbecoming
perspective teaching-learning is a journey
of giving-receiving in coming to know."
(Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, 2011).

P erson - An open being who is more th an and different from

the sum of the parts.

H ealth - An open process of being and becoming, and

involves the synthesis of values.

E
envir~nment - Everything in the person and his/her
experiences.

N ursing - A human science and art that uses an abstrac t

body of knowledge to serve people.

THREE PRINCIPLES
1. Meaning - Structuring meaning multidimensionally is cocreating
reality through the languaging of valuing and imaging.
2. Rythmicity - Cocreating rhythmical patterns of relating is living the
paradoxical unity of revealing-concealing, enabling-limiting while
connecting- separating.
3.Transcendence - Cotranscending with the possibles is powering
unique ways of originating in the process of transforming.