MARTHA ROGER’S SCIENCE OF UNITARY HUMAN BEINGS

Martha E Rogers

INTRODUCTION
Theorist - Martha E Rogers
Born :May 12, 1914, Dallas, Texas, USA
Diploma : Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing(1936)
Graduation in Public Health Nursing : George Peabody College, TN, 1937
MA :Teachers college, Columbia university, New York, 1945
MPH :Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1952
Doctorate in nursing :Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1954
Fellowship: American academy of nursing
Position: Professor Emerita, Division of Nursing, New York University, Consultant,
Speaker
Died : March 13 , 1994

PUBLICATIONS OF MARTHA ROGERS

 Theoretical basis of nursing (Rogers 1970)
 Nursing science and art :a prospective (Rogers 1988)
 Nursing :science of unitary, irreducible, human beings update (Rogers 1990)
 Vision of space based nursing (Rogers 1990)

OVERVIEW OF ROGERIAN MODEL

 Rogers conceptual system provides a body of knowledge in nursing.

 Rogers model provides the way of viewing the unitary human being.
 Humans are viewed as integral with the universe.
 The unitary human being and the environment are one, not dichotomous
 Nursing focus on people and the manifestations that emerge from the mutual
human /environmental field process
 Change of pattern and organization of the human field and the environmental
field is propagated by waves
 The manifestations of the field patterning that emerge are observable events
 The identification of the pattern provide knowledge and understanding of
human experience
 Basic characteristics which describes the life process of human: energy field,
openness, pattern, and pan dimensionality
 Basic concepts include unitary human being, environment, and homeodynamic
principles

CONCEPTS OF ROGERS MODEL

ENERGY FIELD
 The energy field is the fundamental unit of both the living and nonliving
 This energy field "provide a way to perceive people and environment as
irreducible wholes"
 The energy fields continuously varies in intensity, density, and extent.
OPENNESS
 The human field and the environmental field are constantly exchanging their
energy
 There are no boundaries or barrier that inhibit energy flow between fields
PATTERN
 Pattern is defined as the distinguishing characteristic of an energy field
perceived as a single waves
 "pattern is an abstraction and it gives identity to the field"

PAN DIMENSIONALITY
 Pan dimensionality is defined as "non linear domain without spatial or temporal
attributes"
 The parameters that human use in language to describe events are arbitrary.
 The present is relative, there is no temporal ordering of lives.
HOMEODYNAMIC PRINCIPLES
 The principles of homeodynamic postulates the way of perceiving unitary
human beings
 The fundamental unit of the living system is an energy field
 Three principle of homeodynamics
 Resonancy
 Helicy
 integrality
RESONANCE
 Resonance is an ordered arrangement of rhythm characterizing both human field
and environmental field that undergoes continuous dynamic metamorphosis in
the human environmental process
HELICY
 Helicy describes the unpredictable, but continuous, nonlinear evolution of
energy fields as evidenced by non repeating rhythmicties
 The principle of Helicy postulates an ordering of the humans evolutionary
emergence
INTEGRALITY
 The mutual, continuous relationship of the human energy field and the
environmental field .
 Changes occur by by the continuous repatterning of the human and
environmental fields by resonance waves
 The fields are one and integrated but unique to each other

NURSING PARADIGMS

1)UNITARY HUMAN BEING (PERSON)

 A unitary human being is an "irreducible, indivisible, pan dimensional (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" and "a unified whole having its own distinctive characteristics which
cannot be perceived by looking at, describing, or summarizing the parts"
2)ENVIRONMENT
 The environment is an "irreducible, pan dimensional energy field identified by
pattern and integral with the human field"
 The field coexist and are integral.
 Manifestation emerge from this field and are perceived.
3)HEALTH
 "an expression of the life process; they are the "characteristics and behavior
emerging out of the mutual, simultaneous interaction of the human and
environmental fields"
 Health and illness are the part of the sane continuum.
 The multiple events taking place along life's axis denote the extent to which
man is achieving his maximum health potential and very in their expressions
from greatest health to those conditions which are incompatible with the
maintaining life process
4)NURSING
 Two dimensions Independent science of nursing
1. An organized body of knowledge which is specific to nursing is arrived at by
scientific research and logical analysis
2. Art of nursing practice:
 The creative use of science for the betterment of the human
 The creative use of its knowledge is the art of its practice
 Nursing exists to serve people.
 It is the direct and overriding responsibility to the society
 The safe practice of nursing depends on the nature and amount of scientific
nursing knowledge the individual brings to practice the imaginative, intellectual
judgment with which such knowledge is made in service to the man kind.