 Joyce Fitzpatrick – born in 1944

 She is a nurse educator and advocate for nursing, geriatrics,

physiological care, and nursing theory.
 BSN – Georgetown University
 MS in Psychiatric – Mental Health Nursing at Ohio State
University
 PhD in nursing at New York University
 Adjunct Professor in Geriatric Department at Mount Sinai School
of Medicine
 Former head of the American Nursing Foundation, now serving as
Vice Chair.
 Widely published in nursing and healthcare literature
 INTRODUCTION TO THEORY
BACKGROUND OF THEORY
 Life Perspective Rhythm Model is a construct to assist with the
professional practice of nursing.

 Theorist Dr. Joyce Fitzpatrick based her model of practice on Martha

Rogers’ theory of Unitary Human Beings.

 Capitalizes knowledge from other disciplines such as anthropology,

sociology, astronomy, religion, philosophy, history, and mythology.

 The model was developed on September 13, 2013.

WHAT IS RHYTHM?
 MBS - movement, fluctuation, or variation marked by the regular recurrence or
natural flow.

 It is also defined as “a regularly recurrent quantitative change in a variable biological

process.”

 Rhythms can be described, measured, and will be repeated. Thus, the stages of life
and illness can be equated to rhythms.
Major assumptions
 “The process of human development is characterized by rhythms that occur within
the context of continuous person-environment interaction.”

 Nursing activity focuses on enhancing the developmental process toward health.

 A central concern of nursing science and the nursing profession is the meaning
attributed to life as the basic understanding of human existence.

 The identification and labeling of concepts allows for recognition and

communication with others, and the rules for combining those concepts permits
thoughts to be shared through language.
THE RHYTHM MODEL
includes four content concepts and they are:
 PERSON

 HEALTH

 WELLNESS – ILLNESS

 nursing
PERSON
 PERSON INCLUDES BOTH SELF AND OTHERS.

 PERSON IS SEEN AS AN OPEN SYSTEM, A UNIFIED WHOLE

CHARACTERIZED BY A BASIC HUMAN RHYTHM.

 THE MODEL RECOGNIZES INDIVIDUALS AS HAVING UNIQUE

BIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL,
CULTURAL, AND SPIRITUAL ATTITUDES.
HEALTH
 HEALTH IS A DYNAMIC STATE OF BEING THAT RESULTS FROM
THE INTERACTION OF A PERSON AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

 A HUMAN DIMENSION UNDER CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT, A

HEIGHTENED AWARENESS OF THE MEANINGFULNESS OF LIFE.

 OPTIMUM HEALTH IS THE ACTUALIZATION OF BOTH INNATE

AND OBTAINED HUMAN POTENTIAL GATHERED FROM
REWARDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS, GOAL-DIRECTED
BEHAVIOR, AND EXPERT PERSONAL CARE.
WELLNESS-ILLNESS

 PROFESSIONAL NURSING IS ROOTED IN THE PROMOTION OF

WELLNESS PRACTICES.
NURSING
 A DEVELOPING DISCIPLINE WHOSE CENTRAL CONCERN
IS THE MEANING ATTACHED TO LIFE (HEALTH).

 PRIMARY PURPOSE OF NURSING IS THE PROMOTION AND

MAINTENANCE OF AN OPTIMAL LEVEL OF WELLNESS.
PERSPECTIVE RHYTHM MODEL
(VISUAL MODEL)
 RHYTHMIC SYSTEM &
THEORETICAL HYPOTHESIS

 WITHIN JOYCE FITZPATRICK’S MODEL, SHE VIEWS THE

PERSON “AS AN OPEN, HOLISTIC, RHYTHMIC SYSTEM THAT
CAN BE BEST DESCRIBED BY TEMPORAL MOTION,
CONSCIOUSNESS, AND PERCEPTUAL PATTERNS.”

 JOYCE’S THEORETICAL HYPOTHESIS IS “INDIVIDUALS

EXPERIENCING CRISIS HAD DIFFICULTY INTEGRATING THE
PRESENT SITUATION WITHIN THEIR LIFE PERSPECTIVE.”
 REFLECTION
 “The Life Perspective Rhythm Model concludes that the process of human development
is characterized by rhythms that occur within the context of continuous person-
environment interaction and that nursing activities basically focus on strengthening the
developmental process towards health.”
(WIKI: Nursing Theories, 2016)

 “As clinicians, nurses intervene on a daily basis to help individuals understand the
meanings that are significant in their lives, and assist them to grow and learn from life
experiences, no matter how traumatic or pervasive the stress and suffering.”
(Fitzpatrick, J. 2008)
 Reporter’s Reflection to the Theory
 CONCLUSION
 The Life Perspective Rhythm Model is a complex nursing
model which contributes to nursing knowledge by providing a
taxonomy for identifying and labeling nursing concepts to
allow for their universal recognition and communication with
others.
 GROUP 3 MEMBERS:
REPORTERS:
ANGELIE BAUAT
CHARLOTTE BAGUIO BUCCIO
LEONARD BUMAYA
DHEVINE CABURATAN
LORENZ JUDE CAÑETE
EDITOR:
LORENZ JUDE CAÑETE