MARTHA ROGERS: SCIENCE OF UNITARY HUMAN BEINGS

History

Born on May 12, 1914 in Dallas, Texas.

She enrolled in University of Tennessee Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing to pursue
BSN in peobody.

She took a MA in public health in Johns Hopkins University in 1954.

She lectured around the world and established Society of Rogerian School.

She died in 1994 at age 80.

Theory

Rogers’ theory defined Nursing as an art and science. Science of unitary human beings. It is
concerned with the nature and direction of human development.

Assumptions (statement that describe concept)

a) Man is a unified whole possessing his own integrity and manifesting characteristics that are
more than and different from the sum of his parts.
b) Man and the environment are continuously exchanging matter and energy with one
another.
c) The life process evolves irreversibly and unidirectional along the space-time continuum.
d) Pattern and organization identify the man and reflect his innovative wholeness.
e) Man is characterized by the capacity for abstraction and imagery, language and thought
sensation, and emotion.

Goal of nursing

Her goal was to maintain and promote health, prevent illness and care for and rehabilitate ill
and disabled client through humanistic science of nursing.

Major concepts

 Person

An open system, undefined whole, having its own distinct characteristics that can't be viewed
by looking and describing.

 Health
An expression of the life process which is a symbol of well being and absence of a disease.

 Environment.

An irreducible, indivisible, pan-dimensional energy field identified by pattern and integral with
the human field.