Theory name
Theory of human becoming
Theory type
Grand theory
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Theory name
Theory of human becoming
Theory type
Grand theory
Key concept
Humans play a large role in shaping their own lives and the world. People make their own experiences and outcomes
How the person is viewed
Each person is unique, the person who is given care is looked at by their journey in life, not by their illness or health.
A patient should be respected based on how they've experienced life
How health is viewed
Not just a person's physical wellbeing, it’s their continuous process of becoming
A patient's health journey should be navigated by looking at their personal experiences
How the environment is viewed
The patients' interactions with their environment are rhythmic and dynamic. Patients should be supported by finding ways to shape and influence their own environment to help overall well being.
How she viewed nursing
Nurses are not just people who provide care, they are meant to help facilitate the patient's health journey
Nurses are meant to empower the patient to be an active participant in their care and to make choices based on their experiences.
Examples
A patient struggling with mental health will fluctuate with their interactions, paying attention to these patterns by asking them the effects their illness has had on their lives will reveal the patient's perspective of the current situation allowing the nurse to provide most effective care based on that
Main belief
Human beings coauthor their becoming along with the universe, co creating distinct patterns.
Nurses need to focus on quality of life for each person own perspective
Living in an continuous process of becoming, active in the decisions of our life
Human beings have free choice and co create health with the universe
Assumptions
Believed that humans were in the process of becoming
Power to make decisions that shape our lives
Assumptions about human becoming
Human becoming is:
Freely choosing personal meaning in a situation in the intersubjective process of relating value priorities.
Co-creating rhythmic patterns of relating in open process with the universe.
Co- transcending multidimensionally with the emerging possible.
Components of theory
Mutual process of the human universe
Nursing
Goal is quality of life
Nurse should allow patients to make decision that are important to them not medicine (holistic)
Disease is a personal subjective experience, work with them to support their choices
Essentials for nursing practice
Ongoing process of becoming, nurse should be advocates to help patients to express freedom to choose