Martha Rogers Flashcards
What did Martha Rogers developed?
SCIENCE OF UNITARY HUMAN BEINGS
She was one of the first to identify human beings as
the central phenomenon of interest to nursing.
Martha Rogers
(True or False) Rogers stated that humans are more than the sum of their parts and cannot be understood by only having knowledge
of their parts.
True
(True or False) Rogers stated that humans are more than the sum of their parts and cannot be understood by only having knowledge
of their parts.
True
Name the 4 building blocks that Rogers postulated for her model.
Energy Field
A universe of open systems
Pattern
Four dimensionality.
In 1983, why did Rogers changed her wording from that of unitary man to unitary human being?
To remove the concept of gender
This constitutes the fundamental unit
of both the living and the nonliving. This are also
infinite and pandimensional.
Energy field
(True or false) Only human can change continuously, creatively, and integrally.
False. Both human and environmental fields can change continuously, creatively, and integrally.
Two fields are identified in the energy field: the human field and the environmental field. What’s the difference?
The unitary human being (human
field) is defined as an irreducible, indivisible,
pandimensional energy field.
The environmental field is defined as an irreducible,
pandimensional energy field
This holds that energy fields are infinite, open, and
integral with one another.
Universe of Open Systems
This holds that energy fields are infinite, open, and
integral with one another.
Universe of Open Systems
(True or False) The human and environmental fields are in continuous process and are open systems.
True
This identifies energy fields. It is the distinguishing characteristic of an energy field and is perceived as a single wave.
Pattern
It is a nonlinear domain without spatial or temporal attributes. “essentially a spaceless and timeless reality”
Pandimensionality
It best expresses the idea of a unitary whole.
Pandimensionality
A learned profession and is both a science and an art.
Nursing
An open system in continuous process with the open system that is the environment (integrality).
Person
(True or False) people and their environment are perceived as irreducible energy fields integral with one another and continuously creative in their evolution.
True
This symbolizes wellness and the absence of disease and major illness.
Passive Health
(True or False) According to Rogers, health is a much better term because the term
wellness is very ambiguous.
False. Wellness is a much better term.
“an irreducible, pandimensional energy field
identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics different from those
of the parts”
Environment
(True or False) Environmental and human fields are identified by wave patterns manifesting continuous change.
True
(Theoretical Assumptions)
Man is a unified whole processing his own integrity and manifesting characteristics more than and different from the sum of his parts
Energy Field
(Theoretical Assumptions)
Man and environment are continuously exchanging matter and energy with one another
Openness
(Theoretical Assumptions)
The life process evolves irreversibly and unidirectionally along the space- time continuum
Helicy
(Theoretical Assumptions)
Pattern and organization identify man and reflect his innovative wholeness
Pattern and organization
(Theoretical Assumptions)
Man is characterized by the capacity for abstraction and imagery, language and thought, sensation and emotion
sentient, thinking being
