Martha Rogers and Dorothea Orem were two influential theorists that helped shape the nursing profession and how nursing students are taught. Martha Rogers was known for her active role in the development of nursing and the Science of Unitary Human Beings, and Dorothea Orem strived to improve nurse training and nurse education. Without these two theorists, nursing would not be what it is today.
Martha Rogers was born on May 12, 1914 in Dallas, Texas. Martha was one of four children born to Bruce Taylor Rogers and Lucy Mulholland Keener Rogers. When she was in high school, she enrolled in college course because she was ahead of her peers. This was around the time when Martha decided to study medicine, which was unheard of for women. Martha enrolled …show more content…
Rogers defines person as an open system in continuous process with the environment. Her term, unitary human being, is defined as “irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics that are specific to the whole” (Petiprin, 1). Rogers prefers the word wellness over health. She believed that wellness is the absence of any disease that would cause a person harm. Rogers believes that people could achieve maximum wellness through events manifesting throughout life. Environment was defined by Rogers as fields that are infinite and change is unpredictable and …show more content…
She defines self-care as the practice of activities that a person initiates, and performs, on their own behalf to maintain life, health, and well-being. she further breaks self-care down into universal self-care, developmental self-care, and health deviation self-care (Taylor, 1). Universal self-care is eight essential activities that everyone needs. Sufficient intake of air, food, and water, eliminating wastes, balancing activity and rest and solitude and social interactions, prevention of harm, and promotion of normality are all considered universal self-care characteristics (Taylor,1). Developmental self-care are interventions that are designed to help someone return to, or sustain, an optimal level of health. Individualized patient care plans are examples of health deviation self-care. These are used for ill or injured people, or people with disorders and/or under medical diagnosis or
Martha Rogers was born on May 12, 1914 in Dallas, Texas. Martha was one of four children born to Bruce Taylor Rogers and Lucy Mulholland Keener Rogers. When she was in high school, she enrolled in college course because she was ahead of her peers. This was around the time when Martha decided to study medicine, which was unheard of for women. Martha enrolled …show more content…
Rogers defines person as an open system in continuous process with the environment. Her term, unitary human being, is defined as “irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics that are specific to the whole” (Petiprin, 1). Rogers prefers the word wellness over health. She believed that wellness is the absence of any disease that would cause a person harm. Rogers believes that people could achieve maximum wellness through events manifesting throughout life. Environment was defined by Rogers as fields that are infinite and change is unpredictable and …show more content…
She defines self-care as the practice of activities that a person initiates, and performs, on their own behalf to maintain life, health, and well-being. she further breaks self-care down into universal self-care, developmental self-care, and health deviation self-care (Taylor, 1). Universal self-care is eight essential activities that everyone needs. Sufficient intake of air, food, and water, eliminating wastes, balancing activity and rest and solitude and social interactions, prevention of harm, and promotion of normality are all considered universal self-care characteristics (Taylor,1). Developmental self-care are interventions that are designed to help someone return to, or sustain, an optimal level of health. Individualized patient care plans are examples of health deviation self-care. These are used for ill or injured people, or people with disorders and/or under medical diagnosis or