Martha Rogers Flashcards
What is the perceptual environment in nursing theory?
It contains information captured by the sense organs.
What shapes the conceptual environment?
Language, culture, ideas, and cognition.
It emphasizes viewing human beings and their environment as inseparable, irreducible wholes.
Unitary Human Beings Theory
What are the two dimensions of nursing knowledge according to Rogers?
- An organized body of knowledge specific to nursing arrived at by scientific research and logical analysis.
- The art of nursing practice.
What is the art of nursing practice?
The creative use of science for the betterment of the human.
How is the environment defined in Rogers’ theory?
The environment is an ‘irreducible, pan-dimensional energy field identified by pattern and integral with the human field.’
What is the relationship between health and illness?
Health and illness are part of the same continuum.
What does health reflect?
A person’s health, ranging from optimal well-being to conditions incompatible with life.
How is a person defined in nursing theory?
An ‘irreducible, indivisible, pan-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.’
