Martha E. Rogers
Martha Elizabeth Rogers ( born May 12, 1914 in Dallas, Texas, † March 13, 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American Pflegetheoretikerin, nurse researcher and Professor of Nursing. She developed the nursing theory of the science of unitary human beings on the associated model is based care results. Their theoretical work is considered as one of the milestones of the reorientation of American nursing science in the 1970s. The also known as an energy field theory work Rogers is considered one of the foundations of therapeutic touch.
Youth and basic training
Martha Rogers was born on 12 May 1914 in Dallas, the eldest of the four children of the couple Lucy Mulholland Keener and Bruce Taylor Rogers. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where Martha Rogers received her undergraduate education. She studied from 1931 to 1933 at the local University of Tennessee. My career aspiration was not pronounced at this time; she attended, inter alia, the subjects French, zoology, genetics, embryology, mathematics and psychology and completed her studies with the Associate Degree.
She decided to train as a nurse and completed his training at the General Hospital in Knoxville. After graduating, she moved in 1936 to the George Peabody College in Nashville, where he took a year later, the Bachelor of Science in Public Health Nursing from. They then took over a position as a district nurse in Michigan.
Academic and professional development
1940 Rogers attended the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City and was then deputy senior classes Sister of the Visiting Nurses of Hartford in Connecticut. Part-time, she continued her studies and completed her studies in education in 1945 with a master's degree. It was then called as a director of the Visiting Nurse Service of Phoenix. In 1951 she continued her studies at Johns Hopkins University and earned his master's degree in 1952 in Public Health. Your promotion as a Doctor of Natural Sciences followed in 1954. Later that year, she was appointed Professor and Director of the Department of Nursing at New York University. It was retired in 1979, the University was as a professor emerita to 1994 are available.
Rogers died on March 13, 1994 in Phoenix.
Research and theory development
After some 20 years of research published in 1970 Rogers her seminal work entitled An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. In this, it presents four principles of Homöodynamiken which heralded as reductionist, mechanistic and analytical approach a paradigm shift in nursing science. Today The strongly criticized at first especially by physicians work is regarded as a trigger for the diversion of care from the medical model to a nursing scientific understanding of care. Your also presented science of unitary human beings describes her nursing theory of the science of unitary human beings, which is strongly oriented scientific and characterized by a very high level of abstraction. In their view, the human being is to be understood as a unified whole that is constantly exchanging energy and matter as an open system with its environment. The life process of the individual follows this irreversible one direction along the time-space continuum. Through his psychological characteristics of the person is identified as thinking and perceiving beings.
Honors and Awards
Rogers received a total of eight honorary doctorates and she was given the unusual academic honor that a star has been named in the Great Bear for her. The Society of Rogerianer schools is also named after her.