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Rogers: Key Concepts: (1)Energy fields; (2) Openness; (3) Pattern and (4) Pandimensionality
Rogers's science of unitary human beings identified three principles.
(1) accelerating evolution; (2) the theory of the emergence of paranormal phenomena; (3) and manifestations of field patterning in unitary human beings.
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Rogers: Key Concepts: (1)Energy fields; (2) Openness; (3) Pattern and (4) Pandimensionality
Rogers's science of unitary human beings identified three principles.
(1) accelerating evolution; (2) the theory of the emergence of paranormal phenomena; (3) and manifestations of field patterning in unitary human beings.
Background Information:
Martha E. Rogers viewed nursing as both science and art, and believed the profession needed of an organized body of nursing specific knowledge. Her view of humans as irreducible wholes integrated with their environments in a pandimensional universe of open systems points to a new paradigm and initiates the identity of nursing as a science.
Rogers described her world view and made it available to her students throughout the 1970s. She had them over for dinner, drinks, and often talked for hours about theoretical ideas in nursing, how to make health better and what "health" was for individuals.
The first formal publications of Rogers's perspective did not appear until 1986 (Madrid & Winstead-Fry, 1986; Malinski, 1986), and the final version of Rogers's (1992) perspective appeared in an article in Nursing Science Quarterly.
Rogers believes the purpose of nurses is to promote health and well-being for all persons, and the art of nursing is the creative use of the science of nursing for human betterment
Rogers believed that her science identifies nursing's uniqueness. The theory emphasizes that nurses must fulfill their social responsibility in human service. She adamantly maintains that the the future of autonomous nursing practice will be directed by nurses holding valid baccalaureate and higher degrees with an upper division major in nursing science.
Rogers's vision for nursing encompassed individualized community-based services. These include the development of nursing centers and practice that incorporate noninvasive therapeutic modalities including:Therapeutic touch, Imagery, Meditation, Humor, Laughter, Music, Movement
Rogers believed that clients know themselves best and should have the right to make choices about their own health care.
Rogers also noted that her science calls for nurses to envision creative new ways to describe and understand unitary phenomena within a pandimensional view of people and their world (Malinski, 2006).
The further development of Rogers's science of unitary human beings continues and has significant impact on nursing practice.