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Martha Rogers

Presented by: Lyndsi Byers, Geena Griffin, Chelsea Hoy and Mallory Shepard

(Butcher, 2002, Portrait of Martha E. Rogers)

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Objectives Identify the four concepts of the Nursing Theory

Become familiar with nursing theorist Martha Rogers

Understand how Rogers theory can be applied toclinical sitautions

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Nursing Theory PERSON

ENVIRONMENT

HEALTH & ILLNESS

NURSING

(Powerpoint, 2011, Clipart)

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Martha Rogers Born May, 12 1914 (Same birthday as Florence Nightingale)

Received nursing diploma in 1936

Bachelor of Science in 1937; Masters in 1945

Public health nurse for many years

Executive Director of first Visiting Nurse Service in Phoenix, AZ

Head of the Division of Nursing at NYU in 1954

Retired in 1975 after 21 years of service

Died March 13, 1994(ANA, 2011, Rogers)(American Nurses Association, 2011)

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SCIENCE OF

UNITARY BEINGS

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Person

The person is composed of many different parts

pattern and organization

abstraction and imagery

language and thought

sensation and emotion

The combination of all these parts is what makesthe human individual.

(Armstrong & Kelly, 1995)

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Environment Environment and human being continuously work together to create

the forward progression of life

Environment and human coexist and are continuously influencing one

another

ex: photosynthetic plant and human relationship

The ways in which the two influence one another are not always

quantifiable or understandable

The nurse exchanges energy with both the environment and thepatient

(Armstrong & Kelly, 1995)

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Human beings and environment constantly tradematter and energy

The Principle of Resonancy

- as we age, the frequencies become higher explainingwhy time seems to pass quicker

(Armstrong & Kelly, 1995)

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Health/Illness Defined as behaviors that emerge from the

continuum of human and environment

Events in life describe the extent to whichmaximum health is reached

Events that are maintaining health and others that

compromise life process

Health and illness are on the same continuum

(Armstrong & Kelly, 1995)

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Nursing Nursing is a noun not a verb

Nursing is an art AND a science

Nurses should focus on manifestations from theinteractions of human & environment when givingcare

Nurses primary goal is to serve people, responsibility

to society

Nurses must be highly knowledgeable inscience/scientific nature of humans for safe practice

(Armstrong & Kelly, 1995)

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Nursing as a Science Specific organized body of knowledge

Scientific research

Logical analysis

(Armstrong & Kelly, 1995)

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Nursing as an Art Body of knowledge is the basis to be creative when

treating humans

Creative techniques to promote health and wellnessto people

(Armstrong & Kelly, 1995)

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How can we

apply this

theory?

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The person who can see the apple

in the seed has the ability to seethe wholeness of an ill patient.

(Buczny, Speirs, Howard, 1989)

(Powerpoint, 2011, Clipart)

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ScenarioMr. Chatman has colon cancer

Has chronic painUnable to engage in favorite activities

Has been married 52 years

Previous health ethics professor

(Buczny, Speirs, Howard, 1989).

WWMRD?

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Rogers teaches the concept of wholeness, opennessand spiraling complexity. We put them into use by

being open to new ideas for ourselves and our

clients by sharing these new ideas freely.

(Buczny, Speirs, Howard, 1989)

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Literature Search Strategy

CINAHL search database

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References

American Nurses Association. (2011). Martha Elizabeth Rogers (1914-1994) 1996 inductee.Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MarthaElizabethRogers

Armstrong, M., & Kelly, A. (1995). More than the sum of their parts: Martha Rogers andHildegard Peplau. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 9(1), 40-44. Retrieved fromEBSCOhost.

Buczny, B., Speirs, J., & Howard, J. (1989). Nursing care of a terminally ill client.Applying Martha Rogers Conceptual Framework, 7(4) 13-18.