M A R Y E .

G U N T H E R

Unitary
Human
Beings
A PRESENTATION BY
RAFAEL RAFANAN
KYLE SEKIZAWA
RECCA JUMALON
content LEARNING OUTCOMES

I BIOGRAPHY OF MARTHA ROGERS

II SCIENCE OF UNITARY HUMAN BEINGS

III NURSING
ASSUMPTION
learning outcomes
Learn about Martha E. Rogers
Understand the System of Unitary Human
Beings
Learn about the practical application of this
conceptual model.
Identify the connection of this model to the
4 nursing metaparadigms.
I Martha E. Rogers
MARTHA ELIZABETH ROGERS
94 Years Old
(May 12, 1914 - March 13, 1994)
Mother: Lucy Mulholland Keener Rogers
Father: Bruce Taylor Rogers
Dallas, Texas ------ Tennessee, Michigan
1931-1933
University of Tennessee
1936
Knoxville General Hospital
School of Nursing
1937
George Peabody College,
Nashville Tennessee
1945
Master of Arts - Teacher’s College
Columbia University, New York
1952
Master’s of Public Arts Degree
1937
Doctor of Science Degree -
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Early Nursing Practice
Rural Public Health Nursing -
Michigan

Visiting Nurse Supervision,

Education, and Practice -
Connecticut

Established the Visiting Nurse

Service - Phoenix, Arizona
21 Years (1954-1975)
Professor and head of the
Division of Nursing at New York
University

Professor Ermita (1979-1994)

Retired professor honored by a
university.

Overview of Engagements:
3 books and more than 200
articles
Lectured in 46 States
Received Honorary Doctorates
Duquesne University, University of San
Diego, Iona College, Fairfield University,
Emory University, Adelphi University,
Mercy College, and Washburn University
of Topeka
Contributions and Leadership in Nursing

Inspiring Leadership in the Field of Intergroup

Relations by Chi Eta Phi Sorority

In Recognition of Your Outstanding Contribution to

Nursing by New York University

Distinguished Service to Nursing by Teachers College

New York University houses the Martha E. Rogers

Center for the Study of Nursing Science

In 1996 Rogers was inducted posthumously into the

American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.
In 1988, colleagues and students joined her in forming
the Society of Rogerian Scholars (SRS)

Rogerian Nursing Science News

Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science

In 1995 New York University established the

Martha E. Rogers Center
II Science of
Unitary
Human
Beings
“The study of the
moving, intuitive
experience of nurses
in mutual process
with those they
serve”
Sources of the Theory:

Rogers credited scientists from multiple disciplines that influences

the development of the SUHB theory

Rogerian science emerged from the knowledge bases of:

Anthropology Philosophy
Psychology History
Sociology Biology
Astronomy Physics
Religion Mathematics
Literature
Origins of Rogerian science can be traced to Nightingale’s proposal
and statistical data: the foundation for the scope of modern
nursing, placing the human beings within the framework of the natural
world.
Use of Empirical Evidence:

SUHB specifies a worldview and philosophy used to identify the

phenomena of concern to the discipline of nursing

Nonlinear dynamics of quantum physics and general system theory.

Influences:
Einstein’s theory of relativity in relation to space and
time
Burr and Northrop’s electrodynamic theory relating
to electrical fields
Von Bertalanffy’s general system theory
Negentropy : signify increasing order,
complexity, and heterogeneity
Quantum theory and the theories of relativity and
probability
Chaos theory
The belief of the coexistence of the human and the environment has
greatly influenced the process of change toward better health.

A patient can’t be separated from his or her environment when

addressing health and treatment.

Nursing focuses on people and the manifestations that emerge from

the mutual human-environmental field process.

The science of nursing, which is the knowledge specific to

the field of nursing that comes from scientific research.

The art of nursing, which involves using the science of

nursing creatively to help better the lives of the patient.
Concepts:

Roger’s conceptual model of nursing rested on a set of basic

assumptions that described life process in human beings:
Energy field
Openness
Pattern
Pan-dimensionality
Hemodynamic principles
Resonance
Helicy
Integrality

Rogers postulates that human beings are dynamic energy fields that
are integral with environmental fields.
III Assumptions
1. Nursing
Nursing is a learned profession and is both a science and an art.
Science:
An empirical science.
Integrality of people and their
environments, operating from a
pandimensional universe of open systems,
points to a new paradigm and initiates the
identity of nursing as a science.
Art:
Purpose of nursing is to promote health and
well-being of all.
Art of nursing is the creative use of science
of nursing for human betterment.
1. Nursing
“Professional practice in nursing seeks to promote
symphonic interaction between human and environmental
fields, to strengthen the integrity of the human field, and
to direct and redirect patterning of the human and
environmental fields for realization of maximum health
potential"

Nursing exists for the care of people and the

life process of humans.
2. Person
Open system
In continuous process with the open system that is the
environment (integrality)

Unitary Human Being:

“Irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional energy
field, identified by pattern,and manifesting
characteristics that are specific to the whole”

Human Beings:
“Are not disembodied entities, nor are they
mechanical aggregates. Man is a unified whole
processing his own integrity and manifesting
characteristics that are more than and different
from the sum of his parts”
2. Person
People and their environment perceived as:
Irreducible energy fields integral with one another
Continuously creative in their evolution
3. Health
Passive health:
Symbolize wellness
The absence of disease and major illness
(Roger, 1970)
Her promotion of positive health connotes direction
in helping people with opportunities for rhythmic
consistency
Wellness “is a much better term . . . because the
term health is very ambiguous”

Health and illness are manifestations of pattern and are

considered “to denote behavior a that are of high value and
low value”
4. Environment
Irreducible pandimensional energy field identified by pattern
and manifesting characteristics different from those of the
parts.

Each Environment field:

specific to its given human field
Infinite
Change is continuously innovative
Unpredictable
Characterized by increasing diversity

Environment and human fields:

Identified by wave patterns manifesting continuous
mutual change
 References
Alligood, M. R. (2022). Nursing Theorists and Their
Work (10th ed.). Elsevier Health Sciences.