Martha E Rogers Science of Unitary Human Beings
Martha E. Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings
May 12, 1914 - March 13, 1994
Learning Outcomes: • History of the SUHB • Outline of the major component • An Introduction to Energy Fields Nursing
The History of the SUHB
Reveille in Nursing, 1964 An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing, 1970
• Head of Div. Of Nursing, NYU 1954 -1975 • SUHB curriculum • SRS 1988 • Annual conferences, dedicated journal, research
“We are trying to apply concepts of an out-dated world view to a reality that can no longer be understood in terms of these concepts” F. Capra
“A science of unitary human beings basic to nursing requires a new world view and a conceptual system specific to nursing’s phenomenon of concern… Seeing the world from this viewpoint requires a new synthesis, a creative leap, and the inculcation of new attitudes and values…A science of unitary human beings identifies nursing’s uniqueness and signifies the potential of nurses to fulfil their social responsibility in human service”
Courses in: Cosmology Physics Art Philosophy Nursing Science. Literature Languages Applied biology
“The only people competent to teach what nurses are supposed to do are qualified nurses”
Major components of the SUHB
Four Building Blocks Three Principles
Four Building Blocks
Energy Fields Open Systems Pattern Pandimensionality
Energy Fields Fundamental unit of the living and non-living - human beings and the environment are energy fields.
Fields are “irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional…identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics that are specific to the whole…and cannot be predicted from knowledge of the parts”
Open Systems “energy fields are infinite, open, and integral with each other…”
Pattern identifies fields, manifestations identify unique behaviours and are constantly changing
Pandimensionality Energy fields have no spatial or temporal attributes
Three Principles (describing the nature of change)
Principles of Helicy Resonancy Integrality
Principle of Helicy The continuous innovative, unpredictable, increasing diversity of human-environmental field patterns
Principle of Resonancy The continuous change from lower to higher frequency wave patterns in human and environmental fields.
Principle of Integrality The continuous mutual human field and environmental field process.
Energy Fields Nursing
Energy Fields Nursing
Nursing activity: All the usual activity, but in addition….
Intuition Humour Music Colour Intent Poetry Haiku Bibliotherapy Ritual
Synaesthesia Body Image and Dysmorphia Phantom Sensations Ageing Transplantation
Kirlian Photography
Acupuncture
Crystal Therapy
Therapeutic Touch
Chakra Healing
Sound Healing
Prayer
“Only as the science of nursing takes on form and substance can the art of nursing achieve new dimensions of artistry”
Learning Outcomes: • History of the SUHB • Outline of the major component • An Introduction to Energy Fields Nursing
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