Martha E. Rogers’

1. Martha E. Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings

2. May 12, 1914 - March 13, 1994

3. Learning Outcomes: • History of the SUHB • Outline of the major components • An Introduction to Energy Fields • Nursing

4. The History of the S U H B

5. Reveille in Nursing, 1964 An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing, 1970

6. Head of Div. Of Nursing, NYU • 1954-1975 • SUHB curriculum • SRS 1988 • Annual conferences, dedicated • journal, research

7. “We are trying to apply concepts • of an out-dated world view to a • reality that can no longer be • understood in terms of these • concepts” F. Capra

8. “A science of unitary human beings basic to nursing requires a new world view and a conceptual system specific to nursing’s phenomenon of concern… Seeing the world from this viewpoint requires a new synthesis, a creative leap, and the inculcation of new attitudes and values…A science of unitary human beings identifies nursing’s uniqueness and signifies the potential of nurses to fulfil their social responsibility in human service”

9. Courses in: Cosmology Physics Art Philosophy Nursing Science Literature Languages Applied biology

10. “The only people competent to teach what nurses are supposed to do are qualified nurses”

11. Major components of the S U H B

12. Four Building Blocks Three Principles

13. Four Building Blocks

14. Energy Fields Open Systems Pattern Pandimensionality

15. Energy Fields Fundamental unit of the living and non-living - human beings and the environment are energy fields.

22. Fields are “irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional…identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics that are specific to the whole…and cannot be predicted from knowledge of the parts”

23. Open Systems “energy fields are infinite, open, and integral with each other…”

25. Pattern Pattern identifies fields, manifestations identify unique behaviours and are constantly changing

26. Pandimensionality Energy fields have no spatial or temporal attributes

27. Three Principles (describing the nature of change)

28. Principles of Helicy Resonancy Integrality

29. Principle of Helicy The continuous innovative, unpredictable, increasing diversity of human-environmental field patterns

30. Principle of Resonancy The continuous change from lower to higher frequency wave patterns in human and environmental fields.

31. Principle of Integrality The continuous mutual human field and environmental field process.

32. Energy Fields Nursing

33. Energy Fields Nursing

34. Nursing activity: All the usual activity, but in addition….

35. Poetry Haiku Bibliotherapy Ritual Intuition Humour Music Colour Intent

36. Synaesthesia Body Image and Dysmorphia Phantom Sensations Ageing Transplantation

37. Kirlian Photography

38. Acupuncture

39. Crystal Therapy

40. Therapeutic Touch

41. Chakra Healing

42. Sound Healing

43. Prayer

44. “Only as the science of nursing takes on form and substance can the art of nursing achieve new dimensions of artistry”

45. Learning Outcomes: • History of the SUHB • Outline of the major components • An Introduction to Energy Fields • Nursing