Martha Rogers

Rogerian science

The origins of this can be traced back to Nightingale’s proposals and statistical data, placing the human being within the framework of the natural world

Rogerian Science

This “foundation for the scope of modern nursing” began nursing’s investigation of the relationship between human beings and the environment

Energy fields and healing modalities

Constitutes the fundamental unit of both living and non living

The human field and the environment field

These two fields are identical

Universe of open systems

The concept of the universe of open systems holds that energy fields are infinite, open, and integral with one another

The human and environmental fields

Both these fields are in continuous process and are open systems

Pattern

is a unique characteristic of an energy fields, identifying it as a single wave

Pattern

It changes continuously and innovatively, giving identity to the field

Manifestations

Emerge as a human-environmental mutual process, with each individual’s unique field manifestation.

Pattern

Changes continually, affecting disease, illness, or well-being

Pandimensionality

Rogers defines this as a nonlinear domain without spatial or temporal attributes

Pandimensionality

Essentially a spaceless and timeless reality

Pandimensionality

Provides for an infinite domain without limit. it best expresses the idea of a unitary whole

Person

A unitary, irreducible, indivisible energy field. Has unique pattern that identifies the individual. Cannot be separated from the environment

Environment

Pandimensional energy field with unique patterns and characteristics

Person and environment

Are inseparable

Health

promotes passive health as a symbol of wellness and absence of disease, focusing on the human life process and pattern diversity

Nursing

A learned profession that combines science and art focusing on people and their environment. Involves pattern recognition and interventions that support integrality human and environmental fields

Integrality

Person and Environment are inseparable and continuously interacting. Change in one field always affects the othern

Resonancy

Change occurs in wave like patterns from lower to higher frequency, Reflects the rhythmic, continuous flow of life

Helicy

Change continuous, innovative and unpredictable but still follows an overall direction toward increase complexity

Helicy

Life patterns never repeat exactly, they are always revolving