Definitions
Roger's Theories pt.1
Roger's Theories pt.2
Application
Other Misc. Facts
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What is the person called in Roger’s nursing theory?
Unitary human; the individual or group receiving nursing care
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What is noncontact therapeutic touch?
Prayer, spiritual healing, or manipulation of energy fields
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True or false: Higher wave frequencies in human energy field are associated with decreased human development
False; Higher wave frequencies in human energy fields are associated with accelerated human development.
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What two energy fields do nurses need to take into account when caring for patients?
human and environment
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Where was Martha Rogers born?
Dallas, TX
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What is health and nursing?
Wellness and actions taken to achieve wellness
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What does it mean to view the unitary person?
View person as a whole, a sum of all parts
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This theory has no separation between human and environmental fields, which theory is it?
Theory of Paranormal Phenomena
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When caring for a patient it is always important to focus on what of the person?
The wholeness.
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When was Martha Roger’s born?
May 12, 1914
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What is pain and illness?
Disruptions in the human energy fields
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What theory focuses on human rhythms that are different from biological and physiological rhythms?
The Theory of Rhythmicity
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What is Roger’s Theory of Rhythmicity?
The focus on human field rhythms such as sleep pattern, perception of time, and indices of human field motion
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When nursing it is encouraged that you use these two kinds of therapeutic touch?
Contact & Non-contact
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When did Martha Rogers first present her theory of unitary human beings?
1970
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What is place and environment?
The location of where nursing care occurs and the internal and external energy fields
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What are human fields affected by and how do they differ?
Human fields are affected by pain and illness and differ from person to person
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What is Roger’s theory of paranormal phenomena?
This theory explains precognition, déjàvu, clairvoyance, telepathy, and therapeutic touch
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How might Roger’s theory be applied to yourself when you are ill?
Consider your whole body and understand the parts
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Which scientific disciplines do Roger’s complex conceptualizations relate to? Name three.
Einstein’s theory of relativity, von Bertalanffy’s general systems theory, anthropology, psychology, sociology, astronomy, religion, philosophy, history, biology, and literature
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These include fundamental unit of living & nonliving what are they?
Energy Fields
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What describes the unitary man?
”is an irreducible, four dimensional energy field identified by a pattern -manifest characteristics different from the sum of the parts -interacts continuously and creatively with the environment -behaves as a totality -as a sentiment being, participates creatively in change”
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What is Roger’s Theory of Accelerated Evolution?
Theory that evolutionary change is speeding up and this accelerated human development is associated with higher frequency waves
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What is a way Roger’s would suggest a nurse to do in order to promote maximum health potential in the patient?
Direct and redirect patterns of interaction between the two energy fields
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What are three of her publications?
Theoretical basis of nursing, Nursing science and art: a perspective, Nursing: science of unitary, irreducible, human beings update & Vision of space based on nursing.
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