Martha Rogers

SCIENCE OF UNITARY HUMAN BEINGS Rez Gioz P. Apego Junilla D. Aliwanag N-40 Practicing Clinical Instructors

Facts about Martha Rogers

Martha Elizabeth Rogers Born :May 12, 1914, Dallas, Texas, USA Diploma : Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing(1936) Graduation in Public Health Nursing : George Peabody College, TN, 1937 MA :Teachers college, Columbia university, New York, 1945 MPH :Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1952 Doctorate in nursing :Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1954 Position: Professor Emerita, Division of Nursing, New York University, Consultant, Speaker Died : March 13 , 1994

Overview of Rogerian model

Rogers conceptual system provides a body of knowledge in nursing. Rogers model provides the way of viewing the unitary human being. Humans are viewed as integral with the universe. The unitary human being and the environment are one, not dichotomous Nursing focus on people and the manifestations that emerge from the mutual human /environmental field process Change of pattern and organization of the human field and the environmental field is propagated by waves The manifestations of the field patterning that emerge are observable events The identification of the pattern provide knowledge and understanding of human experience Basic characteristics which describes the life process of human: energy field, openness, pattern, and pan dimensionality Basic concepts include unitary human being, environment, and homeodynamic principle

Concepts of Rogers model

The following basic characteristics that describe the basic life process in human are proposed:

Energy field

Openness
Pattern Pandimensionality

Energy field

Energy is the "potential for process, movement, and change." The energy field is the conceptual boundary of all that is. The energy field is the fundamental unit of both the living and the nonliving. This energy field provides a way to perceive people and their environment as irreducible wholes." The energy field continuously varies in intensity, density, and extent.

Openness

The human field and the environment field are constantly exchanging energy. There are no boundaries or barriers to inhibit energy flow between fields. "The human beings openly participate in energy transformation with the environment creating mutual change."

Pattern

Pattern is defined as the distinguishing characteristic of an energy field perceived as a single wave. Roger calls it "an abstraction" that gives Identity to the field." Patterning is the dynamic or active process of the life of the human being that is "accessible to the senses." Pattern manifestations include a persons experiences, expressions, perceptions, and physical, mental, social and spiritual data

Pan Dimentionality

A non linear domain without special or temporal attributes. The parameters in language that humans use to describe events are arbitrary. The present is relative, there is no temporal ordering of lives.

THE HOMEODYNAMIC PRINCIPLES

The principles of homeodynamics postulate the way of perceiving unitary human beings. The fundamental unit of the living system is an energy field. The three principles of homeodynamics as proposed by Rogers are: (.1) resonancy. (2) helicy. (3) integrality. These principles describe the nature of the person/environment process involving change and growth.

Resonancy

The intensity of change, embraces the continuous variability of the human energy field as it evolves. "An ordered arrangement of rhythms characterizing both human field and the environmental field that undergoes continuous dynamic metamorphosis in the human-environment process."

Helicy

Describes the unpredictable but continuous, nonlinear evolution of energy fields as evidenced by nonrepeating rhythmicities. The life process evolves in sequential stages along a curve that has the same general shape. The principle of helicy postulates an ordering of the human's evolutionary emergence.

Intergrality

Encompasses the mutual, continuous relationship of the human energy field and the environment energy field. Change occurs by continuous repatterning of the human and environmental fields by resonance waves. The fields are one and integrated but unique to each other.