NURS 502 Keiser University Wk 4 Science of Unitary Human Beings Theory Discussion

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  • Choose one theory from the Unitary Transformative paradigm of nursing theories in this week's readings in the Smith & Parker textbook - Ch 14, 15, 16
  • Describe the theorist and principles of the theory.
  • Compare and contrast your nursing practice to this theory.
  • Does your practice align with the principles of this theory in any way, or at any time? Why or why not?
  • APA style 750words / use at least 3 references

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WEEK 4 – CONCEPTUAL MODELS - GRAND THEORIES – UNITARY TRANSFORMATIVE PRADIGM READING WEEK FOUR Topic: Conceptual Models/Grand Theories – Unitary Transformative Paradigm Readings Readings Smith & Parker textbook - Ch 14, 15, 16 • • • • • Choose one theory from the Unitary Transformative paradigm of nursing theories in this week's readings in the Smith & Parker textbook. Describe the theorist and principles of the theory. Compare and contrast your nursing practice to this theory. Does your practice align with the principles of this theory in any way, or at any time? Why or why not? APA style 750words / use at least 3 references
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Nursing Theories

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Nursing Theories
Science of Unitary Human Beings Theory (SUHB)

Martha E. Rogers
Martha E. Rogers was a staunch pioneer in nursing advocacy for nursing as a science
that leads to the art of care practice. Rogers was a researcher, an American nurse, author, and
theorist, widely recognized for coming up with the Science of Unitary Human Beings theory.
After her degree, she financed her master’s with funds she got from selling her car, enabling
her to join John Hopkins Doctorate in Nursing, which she completed in 1954. Throughout her
career, Rogers wanted to differentiate techniques, skills, and how knowledge is used from the
actual knowledge that directs nursing practice, which promotes human well-being (Gonzola,
2021).
Martha E. Rogers’s Theory Principles
In her theory, Rogers views the nursing practice as an art and a science because it
offers an approach to understand the unitary human being as an integral being to the creation.
She derived three principles in her SUHB theory, including integrality, resonancy, and helicy.
According to Rogers, integrity in nursing practice is a continuous mutual environmental field
and human process, which describes the oneness. It moves from the old focus of heroic
competition, isolated self, and considering nature as isolated objects into the realization of
observer’s integral to objects observed and objectivity, logic, and analysis. Resonancy in her
theory is the continuous change in frequency wave patterns in en...

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