Nursing Theorist Martha E Rogers

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Nursing Theory of Science of Unitary Human Beings created by Martha Rogers. The paper will include focus information inclusive of her motivations and influences for creating this nursing model, her philosophies regarding nursing care and how this model correlates with the four global concepts of nursing human being, environment, health and nursing. Additionally, the paper will provide an evaluation of how Martha Roger’s Nursing Theory relates to nursing practice. The belief of the coexistence of the human and the environment has greatly influenced the process of change toward better health. In short, a patient can’t be separated from his or her environment when addressing health and treatment. This view lead and opened Martha E. Rogers theory, known as the “Science of Unitary Human Beings,” which allowed nursing to be considered one of the scientific disciplines [Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines] Martha Elizabeth Rogers was born in Dallas, Texas, on May 12, 1914, Rogers was the eldest of four children of Bruce and Lucy M. Keener Rogers. After attending the University of Tennessee at Knoxville from 1931 to 1933, Rogers entered the Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing, receiving her diploma in 1936, and earned a bachelor of science degree from George Peabody College, Nashville, in 1937. She was employed as a public health nurse in Michigan from 1937 to 1939, and as a member of the staff of the Hartford, Connecticut Visiting Nurses Association from 1940 to 1945. Rogers was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author. While professor of nursing at New York University, Rogers developed the "Science of Unitary Human Beings", a body of ideas that she described in her book An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. Rogers died March 13, 1994, and was buried in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1996, she was posthumously inducted into the American Nurses Association's Hall of Fame. Rogers’ theory defined Nursing as an art and science that is humanistic and humanitarian. It is directed toward the unitary human and is concerned with the nature and direction of human development. The goal of nurses is to participate in the process of change. According to Rogers, the Science of Unitary Human Beings contains two dimensions: the science of nursing, which is the knowledge specific to the field of nursing that comes from scientific research; and the art of nursing, which involves using the science of nursing creatively to help better the life of the patient. A proponent of rigorous scientific study, Rogers wrote three books that enriched the learning experience and influenced the direction of nursing research for countless students: Educational Revolution in Nursing 1961, Reveille in Nursing 1964, and An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing 1970, the last of which introduced the four