King and Rogers
Our focus this week continues to be on theories that view patients within environments and systems. Week 4 brings us to discussing King and Rogers!!
Roger’s Science of Unitary Human Beings — Rogers is the one that talks about the science and art of nursing. The patient is more than just the sum of his or her parts – he is an individual impacted by his environment. To apply this to the critical care environment, a patient is more than a combination of lab values, diagnoses, and treatments. The art of nursing is the realization that there is more to this patient. The art of nursing means, as the nurse, I walk into my intubated and sedated patient’s room and speak to him. I touch his arm gently and tell him what I am about to do, and how his environment is about to change, such as putting a blood pressure cuff on his arm; treating the patient as a human being with every action.
The Discussion Board each week will introduce a New Theorist! Be sure to discuss that New Theorist in your post! I will be looking for that discussion as well as answering each question.
Consider what was happening in nursing in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the change from diploma programs to an associate degree program. Martha Rogers, a major theorist of this time, believed that nursing is a separate and essential discipline and unique field of study. She worked hard to establish nursing in higher education. Explain the importance of this shift and how it impacted nursing as a profession (think about the changes that took place because of this change – what did this do to the outlook and practice of nursing)
