https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b Science of Unitary Human Beings Nursing Theory en-us 2020-05-14 22:22:43 UTC 2025-07-12 15:40:12 UTC hello@padlet.com nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573885515 2020-05-14 22:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573885515 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573886160 Martha Rodgers was born in 1914 in Dallas Texas. Eventually her and her family moved to Knoxville Tennessee where he attended college at the University of Tennessee and began taking undergraduate science courses for two years. In 1936, she received her nursing diploma after completing nursing school at Knoxville General Hospital. She completed her Bachelor of Nursing in Public Health from George Peabody College in 1937.
At first she began working as a public health nurse. In 1945, she earned her masters degree in public health nursing supervision from Teacher's College Columbia University.
She first published her model of human interaction and the nursing process in 1970 when she published An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. This view presented a drastic but attractive way of viewing human interaction and the nursing process.  (https://www.aahn.org/rogers)]]> 2020-05-14 22:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573886160 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573911033 2020-05-14 22:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573911033 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573912786 Below is Part One of Martha Rodgers explaining her theory.]]> 2020-05-14 22:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573912786 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573916142 2020-05-14 23:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573916142 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573940176 2020-05-14 23:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573940176 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573944107 2020-05-14 23:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573944107 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573944780 Martha's Theory views nursing as both an art and a science. Her Theory also believed that the unitary being and his/her enviroment are one. There are eight concepts in Rogers’ nursing theory: energy field, openness, pattern, pan-dimensionality, homeodynamic principles, resonance, helicy, and integrality. Rogers defines health as an expression of the life process. It is the characteristics and behavior coming from the mutual, simultaneous interaction of the human and environmental fields, and health and illness are part of the same continuum.
The framework set by Rogers’s theory allows nurses to operate from a place of scientific assurance in the work they do, all the while maintaining focus on the patients they work with. (Petiprin, A.)]]> 2020-05-14 23:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573944780 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573951875 2020-05-14 23:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573951875 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573955230 Martha's nursing theory can be used to address nurse burnout. Nursing and healthcare staff burnout is one of the many issues faced today in the healthcare field. Many nurses, while supporting in safety culture, end up compromising it due to being overworked. Some nurses, for example, work two full time jobs at separate facilities, which leads to exhaustion. The more stressed or tired a nurse becomes the higher the chance of mistakes occur. Although nurses know that focus is important in their jobs,  once experiencing burn out may find it hard to keep focus. Martha's theory frames the work into a new light. Most new nurses have strong motivating factors when entering the field, seeing the results of what they do as being greater than the sum of their parts and having a rippling effect out in the environment can help them remained focused even during mental fatigue. Over time the exhaustion starts to take over and you no longer feel those motivating factors that keep you looking forward to another day of work or help with staying focused.  Applying the theory to nurses themselves can help management to see the importance of allowing nurses  to rest.  By implying Martha's theory, management can see that nurses are part of the patient's environment and if the nurses aren't well themselves they cant properly help the patients to heal. Nurses who are burned out will act as a stressor to the patients. Though the patient may not perceive this stress consciously, a nurse’s action’s can have great impact on a patient’s health. 

All in all Martha's Theory can help act as a source of motivation for a nurse who is starting to experience burnout. It can also bring light to management on the important of rest for the nurses. This can help management to decide on better nurse-patient ratios, proper break times, etc. Nurses are inherently linked in health to those around them. According to the theory, if a nurse is unhealthy and burnout, so will be their patients.Its important nurses stay motivated, and have proper rest to ensure a healthy environment for their patients. (Spiezio, V. 2017)]]> 2020-05-14 23:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573955230 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573995822 Spiezio, V. (2017, November 24). Applying the Nursing Theory of Martha Rogers. Retrieved from https://owlcation.com/academia/Applying-the-Nursing-Theory-of-Martha-Rogers]]> 2020-05-15 00:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/573995822 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/574028598 Petiprin, A. (n.d.). Rogers' Theory of Unitary Human Beings. Retrieved from https://nursing-theory.org/theories-and-models/roger-theory-of-unitary-human-beings.php]]> 2020-05-15 00:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/574028598 nicole_sorrentino https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/574032819 Martha E. Rogers. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.aahn.org/rogers]]> 2020-05-15 00:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nicole_sorrentino/mfpdmnazyhn077b/wish/574032819