MARTHA E.

ROGERS
(1914-1994)

1931-1933  University of Tennessee at

Knoxville
1933  Nursing program atKnoxville
General Hospital
1937  BSPH, George Peabody College
in Nashville
1939  MA, Columbia's Teacher's College
in New York city
1952  MPH, John Hopkins University in
Baltimore in Maryland
1954  ScD John Hopkins University in
Baltimore in Maryland
 ASSUMPTIONS
✔ humans are viewed as integral with the universe
✔unitary human being and the environment are
one
✔life process of human is irreparable and one way
✔health and illness are continuous expression of
life process
✔humans have the ability to adapt according to
new changes in the environment
✔nursing focus on people and the manifestations
that emerge from the mutual human
/environmental field process
MAJOR CONCEPT

Energy
fields

Openness

Pan
dimensional Pattern
 Energy Fields
 “fundamental unit of both living and non
living”
 inherently dynamic and is subjected to change
 provide a way to perceive people and
environment as irreducible wholes
 human being as a unified whole which is more
than and different from the sum of the parts
 human and environment are energy fields
 Openness
 no boundaries or barrier that inhibit energy
flow between fields
 human energy field and environmental field
are integral with each other
 hef and environmental field continuously and
completely exchanges information
 they are inseparable
 Pan dimensional
 "non linear domain without spatial or
temporal attributes“
 "infinite domain without limit"
 Pattern
 “perceived as a single wave that gives
identity to the field”
 every individual or field has its own unique
characteristic or pattern integral with its own,
unique environmental field
 “postulate a way of
perceiving unitary
THE man”
PRINCIPLES
Balance
OF HOMEO between the
process and
DYNAMICS environment
dynamic life
Integrality

covers the mutual, continuous relationship of the human and

environmental fields

Resonancy
ordered arrangement of rhythm characterizing both human field
and environmental field that undergoes continuous dynamic
metamorphosis in the human environmental process

Helicy
unpredictable, nonlinear evolution of energy fields as seen in
non-repeating rhythmicities, and postulates an ordering of the
human evolutionary emergency
 THEORETCIAL ASSUMPTIONS
 A person is in continuous mutual
process with the energy field that
is the environment
 The manifestation of each aspect as a
person must be considered in the
context of a whole
 A nurse must participate in the mutual
process of that person and that
person's environment in order to
observe and apprehend the patterns
that both fields manifest
PERSON
 Everything outside the human
field
 Human beings can only exist in
an environment
 Importance of the environment to
a person and the importance of a
person to the environment
 By caring for the
environment,human beings also
care for themselves
ENVIRONMENT
 Human life process as the central
phenomena of concern in
Nursing
 Contributor to the capacity of a
person to maximize the
experience of the human life
process
Health
 Tasked with the responsibility to
keep pace with such changes and
must therefore continue to
develop its body of knowledge
 Lie in the application of the
science of nursing for human
betterment
 Nursing stands as a unifying
element that helps rationalize the
total human life experience
Nursing