Martha Rogers  Nurses need to show concern over

client’s needs or condition.

 Rogers (1914) – outcome-based
theorist Implication of nursing
 Science of Unitary Human Beings
(1970)  Non-contact therapeutic touch, to
manipulate and enhance healing
 One of the first nurse scholars to
process of people who are ill or
identify th person (unitary human) as
injured
the central phenomena of nursing
concern  Therapeutic touch
 Newman – 1979 Rogerian Theory  Music therapy
 Johnson – 1971  Humor therapy
 Travelbee – predecessor of  Meditation
humanistic nursing  Journaling
 Pain management, psychotherapy
Metaparadigm and rehabilitation
 Reikki – sweeping of negativity
 Man – unitary man is viewed as an
 CAMs – complementary and
infinite, pendimensional
alternative medicine
 Nursing – maintain and promote
health, prevent illness, and care for
and rehabilitate the ill and disabled
client through the “humanistic
science of nursing”
 Environment – environment and man
are energy fields coextensive with
the universe
 Health – pattern and organization of
the human energy field, evolving
alng space-time continuum. The goal
is the betterment of man. A state of
passive health... defined by culture
and the person

Emphasis

 Holistic nurses must personally

develop high levels of responsibility,
self-care, reflection, and spirituality
in their own lives
 Only qualified nurses should teach
nursing