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Humanbecoming
Rosemarie
parse
⊹ graduated from Duquesne
University in Pittsburgh and
received her master’s and
doctorate degree from the
University of Pittsburgh.

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Rosemarie
parse
⊹ a member of the American
Academy of Nursing,
founder and editor of
Nursing Science Quarterly,
president of Discovery
International, founder of the
Institute of
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Humanbecoming.
Rosemarie
parse
⊹ She has experience as a
faculty member, Dean of
Nursing School, and a
Professor and coordinator for
nursing research

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Rosemarie
parse
⊹ From 1993 to 2006, she was
Professor and Niehoff chair
at Loyola University
Chicago.

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Rosemarie
parse
⊹ was greatly influenced by American
nurse Martha E. Rogers and
European philosophers Heidegger,
Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. From
their influences, Parse secured nursing
as a human science and developed the
theory of Humanbecoming
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Rosemarie
parse
⊹ Parse’s motivation came from realizing
humans are intentional beings. They
are indivisible, unpredictable and ever-
changing

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Rosemarie
parse
⊹ She began her work on
theory in the 1970’s and
published Man-Living-
Health: A theory of Nursing
in 1981. In 1992, it was
changed to The Human
becoming Theory
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Rosemarie
parse
⊹ is known nation wide for her
articles and books that have
been published in numerous
languages. She also consults
in settings that utilize her
theory

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Rosemarie
parse
⊹ Her theory guides practice,
education, leadership,
mentoring, and regulation in
healthcare settings across the
world

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Rosemarie
parse
⊹ Parse’s multiple research
projects and interests are
focused on lived experiences
of health and human
becoming

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 Theory of
humanbecoming
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⊹ Nurses living the humanbecoming
paradigm beliefs hold that their primary
concern is people’s perspectives of living
quality with human dignity

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⊹ The humanbecoming theory posits quality
of life from each person’s own
perspective as the goal of nursing practice

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Humanbecoming theory in a
nutshell
⊹ Human universe as unitary-indivisible-
unpredictable and ever-changing
⊹ Person and environment are one
⊹ Nurse’s primary concern is persons’
perspective of living quality with human
dignity
⊹ No labels – Patient can never be
“noncompliant”
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Core conecepts
⊹ Human as indivisible, unpredictable and
ever-changing, co-creating a unique
becoming

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Core conecepts
⊹ Nursing as both a discipline and a
profession:
⊹ Goal of the discipline is to expand
knowledge about human experiences
⊹ Goal of the profession is to provide
service to mankind through living the
art of the science

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5 core theoretical
concepts
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intentionallity
⊹ To be human is to be intentional and to be
involved with the world
⊹ Involved through knowing, being present,
and being open

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Human subjectivity
⊹ It is living what is and also what is not-yet-all-
at-once (thinking/imagining/conceiving of the
future possibilities)
⊹ Human participate with the world through
choosing to live their values
⊹ Every person creates a unique relationship with
the universe that is open to new possibilities

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Co-constitution
⊹ The way we individually create meaning in a
situation
⊹ We change and are changed through out
interpretation of life situations
⊹ The ways we think and act open and close
possibilities as we create our reality

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Coexistence
⊹ Human beings are in the world with others
⊹ We think of ourselves in relation to how we are
with others and how we might be with out
plans and dreams
⊹ There are no cause-effect relationships for
human beings because there is always freedom
to choose

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Situated freedom
⊹ We participate in choosing the situations that
we find ourselves in and our attitude toward
those situations
⊹ In choosing how we will be, we show what we
value and create value systems
⊹ We decide what is important in our lives

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 Key principles
Uncovering what was and what will be by associating varying degrees of
significance to the happenings. People co-participate
Meaning
In creating what is real for them through self-expression in living their
values in a chosen way

This principle means that living paradox encompasses apparent opposite

experiences that coexist in rhythmical patterns. It means that in living
Rhythmicity
moment-to-moment one shows and does not show opportunities and
limitations that emerge in moving with and apart from others

The process of reaching out beyond the self to dream of new possibilities
and the making plans to reach them, moving beyond the “now” moment
Orange
is forging a unique personal path for oneself in the midst of ambiguity
and continuous change
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Paradoxes…
⊹ Revealing/Concealing
⊹ Certainty/Uncertainty
⊹ Conformity/Nonconformity

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Nursing practice
⊹ Nurses do not have a preset agenda or teaching
plan about what the person should or ought to
do
⊹ Nurses ask what is most important for the
moment and explore meanings, wishes, intents.
And these guide the nurses’ actions
⊹ What may seem important to the nurse may
not be what is important to the person
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Nursing practice
⊹ Differs from the traditional nursing process,
particularly in that it does not seek to “fix”
problems
⊹ Ability to see patient’s perspectives allows
nurse to “be with” patient and guide them
toward desired health outcomes
⊹ Nurse-person relationship cocreates changing
health patterns
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Evaluating care
⊹ From the humanbecoming perspective, the
discipline’s goal is quality of life.
⊹ The goal of the nurse living in humanbecoming
beliefs in true presence in bearing witness and
being with others in their changing health patterns
⊹ What is life like here for you?
⊹ What is the most important thing for you?
⊹ What does that mean/did not mean for you?
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“ ⊹ True presence in bearing witness and
The goal of nursing…

being with others in their changing

patterns of living quality
⊹ Not something that can be “practiced”
but rather “lived”

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Case scenario
Mr. E, a 58-year-old married man, was admitted
to the OR for autocoronary bypass and possible
left ventricular aneurysm repair. While the
patient was being admitted, a cardiovascular
nurse checked the patient’s record for
information such as known allergies and
completed preoperative procedures. These
activites fulfilled the responsibilities related to
institutional policy

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Case scenario
Patient Nurse

I want all of this to be over with

I am terriefied about going on the heart

bypass pump, but have made up my mind
that it was worth the risk

I know I may not come out of this

I hope I have the strength to deal with the

pain and the tubes

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Case scenario
Patient Nurse

I want all of this to be over with What do you mean?

I am terriefied about going on the heart

bypass pump, but have made up my mind Tell me more about your fear of the pump
that it was worth the risk

I know I may not come out of this What do you hope will happen

I hope I have the strength to deal with the

What might give you strength
pain and the tubes

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Metaparadigm/parse
Person + environment = human universe
Both in constant interaction, non-definable as separate entities
Health is not something that we can prescribe or described
by societal norms, but rather it is lived by individuals. It is
Health
structuring meaning, co-creating rhythmical patterns of
relating and co-transcending with the possibilities
A basic sience which is performed as an art. Nursing’s
responsibility to society is accomplished through an
Nursing intersubjecive process in which we guide
individuals/families in choosing possibilities that change the
helath process

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Thanks!

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Blessed holy
week to all…
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Group 3

Irene Moreno Shiela Prunes Julie Ann Biol

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