Martha Elizabeth Rogers

(1914-1994)
BACKGROUND...
▪ Martha Elizabeth Rogers was born May 12, 1914, in Dallas, Texas.
▪ Soon after her birth, her family returned to Knoxville, Tennessee. She
began her college education (1931-1933) studying science at the
University of Tennessee.
▪ After receiving her nursing diploma from Knoxville General Hospital
School of Nursing (1936), she quickly obtained a bachelor of science
degree from George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee (1937).
▪ Her other degrees included a master’s of arts and degree in public
health nursing supervision from Teacher’s College, Columbia
University, New York (1945), and a master’s of public arts degree (1952)
and doctor of science degree (1954) from Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore.
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BACKGROUND
• Rogers’ early nursing practice was in rural public
health nursing in Michigan and in visiting nurse
supervision, education, and practice in Connecticut.
Rogers subsequently established the Visiting Nurse
Service of Phoenix, Arizona.
• For 21 years (from 1954-1975), she was professor and
head of the Division of Nursing at New York
University.
• After 1975, she continued her duties a professor until
she became Professor Emerita in 1979.
• She held this title until her death on March 13, 1994 at
79 years of age.
• Rogers’ publications include three books and more
than 200 articles. She lectured in 46 states, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Netherlands,
China, Newfoundland, Colombia, Brazil, and other
countries. 3
Rogers’ Unitary Human Being
is mainly focusing on the four
concepts and three principles of
homeodynamic that are energy fields,
openness, pattern, pandimensional,
integrality, resonancy, and helicy
respectively. 4
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS AND DEFINITION

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• PERSON
-A unitary human being is open systems which continuously interact
with environment.
-A person cannot be viewed as parts, it should be considered as a
whole.
• ENVIRONMENT
-It includes the entire energy field other than the person.
-These energy field are irreducible, not limited by space and time,
identified by its pattern and organization.
• HEALTH
-Not clearly defined by Rogers. It is determined by the interaction
between energy fields, human, and environments.
-Bad interaction or misplacing of energy leads to illness.
• NURSING
-Nursing exists to serve people.
-Nursing is both science and art.
-It is the direct and overriding responsibility to the society.
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MAJOR CONCEPTS AND THEIR DEFINITIONS

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• ENERGY FIELD
-It is inevitable part of life. Human and environment both have
energy field which is open.
-Energy can freely flow between human and environment.
• OPENNESS
-There is no boundary or barrier than can inhibit the flow of
energy between human and environment which leads to the continuous
movement or matter of energy.
• PATTERN
-Pattern is defined as the distinguish characteristics of an
energy field percieved as a single waves.
-“pattern is an abstraction and it gives identity to the field”
• PAN DIMENSIONALITY
-Pan dimensionality is defined as “non linear domain without
spatial or temporal attributes”
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HOMEODYNAMIC
PRINCIPLES
“ Homeodynamic refers to
the balance between the
dynamic life process and
environment.

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THREE PRINCIPLE OF HOMEODYNAMICS

RESONANCY HELICY INTEGRALITY

~ wave ~ the nature of ~ energy fields of
humans and
patterns are change is environment are
continuously unpredictable, in a continuous
changing in continuous, mutual process.
environmental and an
and human innovative.
energy fields
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Thanks!
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-Aubrey Renz Cuerdo
-Shania Faye Coloma

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