Nur210 Exam 1 37 Tested And Approved 2024

Strengths {Ans: -Rogers' concepts provide a worldview from which nurses may derive theories and hypotheses and propose relationships specific to different situations -Rogers' theory is not directly testable due to lack of concrete hypotheses, but it is testable in principle}Environment (Rogers) {Ans: -Environmental field: an irreducible, indivisible, pandimensional energy field identified by pattern and integral with the human field -Energy field: the energy field is the fundamental unit of both the living and the non-living. It provides a way to view people and the environment as irreducible whole, the energy fields continuously vary in intensity, density, and extent}Description {Ans: -Rogers' theory defined Nursing as "an art and science that is humanistic and humanitarian. It is directed toward the unitary human and is concerned with the nature and direction of human development, the goal of nurses is to participate in the process of change" -According to Rogers, the Science of Unitary Human Beings contains two dimensions: the science of nursing which is the knowledge specific to the field of nursing that comes from scientific research; and the art of nursing, which involves using the science of nursing creatively to help better the life of the patient}Nursing (Rogers)