Nursing Theory Essay

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Description of the Theory of Human Becoming Next, the theoretician’s history and perspectives on care are highlighted, which significantly influenced the construction process of a nursing theory. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse is one of the most recent nursing theoreticians. In 1981, she published the book Nursing Fundamentals, in which she presented her ideas, proposing the nursing subject based on human sciences.5 She obtained an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently serving as a lecturer at Loyola University in Chicago; she is the founder and editor of Nursing Science Quarterly and the president of Discovery International and the Institute of Human Becoming. Also, she has authored eight books and different papers.10 Parse inserted two paradigms into the discussion of nursing theories, the totality paradigm, in which man is the sum of system and considered as a bio-psycho-social-spiritual being, who interacts with the environment through internal and external stimuli. The second is the simultaneity paradigm, in which man is a “unitary being in a mutual inter-relationship with the environment, and health is the negentropic development”,9:267 considered as a reactive process to obtain energy reserves in order to stop the entropic process.8-9,11 The Theory of Human Becoming, formerly called the Theory of Man-Living-Health, is classified among the main theories of the unitary process, as its theoretical framework is complex and described at a philosophical and highly abstract level.8 It was constructed based on the principles and concepts of Martha E. Rogers and borrowed its three main principles of integrality, resonancy and helicy from this model, as well as its four main concepts energy field, openness, pattern and pandimensionality.9-11 The theoretician also received influence from the existential-phenomenological ideas of Heidegger, Sartre and

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