MARTHA E. ROGERS

Question 1

• set of basic assumptions that described the life process in human beings that characterized the life process
• a patient can’t be separated from his or her environment when addressing health and treatment
• contains two dimensions: the science of nursing, and the art of nursing

Answer 1

Unitary Human Beings Theory

Question 2

___ are dynamic energy fields that
are integral with environmental fields

Answer 2

human beings

Question 3

• fundamental units of living and nonliving
• provides a way to view people and the environment as irreducible wholes
• continuously vary in intensity, density, and extent

Answer 3

energy field

Question 4

irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional
energy field; specific to the whole and cannot be identified by its parts

Answer 4

unitary human being (person)

Question 5

• the human field and the environmental field
  are constantly exchanging their energy
• no boundaries or barriers that inhibit energy flow between fields

Answer 5

openness / open systems

Question 6

• distinguishing characteristic of an energy field perceived as a single waves
• an abstraction and gives identity to the field
• changes continually and may manifest disease,
  illness, or well-being

Answer 6

patterns

Question 7

• non linear domain without spatial or temporal attributes
• parameters to describe events are arbitrary, and the present is relative; there is no temporal ordering of lives
• essentially a spaceless and timeless reality

Answer 7

pandimensionality

Question 8

defined as the unique behavior of whole systems, unpredicted by any behaviors of their component functions taken separately

Answer 8

synergy

Question 9

• ordered arrangement of
  rhythm
• both human field and environmental field undergoes continuous dynamic metamorphosis in the human environmental process
• intensity of change from lower to higher frequency

Answer 9

resonancy

Question 10

• reflects the unity or wholeness of humans and
  their environment
• the mutual, continuous relationship of the human energy field and the environmental
  field
• the fields are one and integrated but unique
  to each other

Answer 10

integrality

Question 11

• unpredictable, but continuous, nonlinear evolution of energy fields as evidenced by non repeating rhythmicities
• postulates an ordering of the humans evolutionary emergence
• spiral development in continuous, non-repeating, and innovate patterning

Answer 11

helicy

Question 12

change in human behavior will be determined by the simultaneous interaction of the actual state of the human and environmental field’s actual state at any given point in space-time

Answer 12

synchrony

Question 13

• both a science and an art
• direct and overriding responsibility to the society
• exists to serve people, and the safe practice of this depends on the nature and amount of scientific knowledge the nurse brings to his or her practice

Answer 13

nursing

Question 14

• an irreducible, indivisible, pan-dimensional energy field identified by pattern and integral with the human field
• encompasses everything outside the individual’s energy field
• dynamic and ever-changing, where the individual interacts and adapts to it

Answer 14

environment

Question 15

• an expression of the life process
• characteristics and behavior coming from the mutual, simultaneous interaction of the human and environmental fields and health and illness are part of the same continuum

Answer 15

health