Essays on Martha Rogers

The chosen theorist is Dorothea Orem, who was born in 1914 and died in 2007. She started her career after earning a diploma at Providence Hospital in Washington DC. In the start of her career, she worked as a nurse staff and then she became a nurse educator as well as administrator and nurse consultant. Also, with the help of her experiences, degree of doctorate level, she successfully introduced her general theory of nursing related to self-care, self-care deficit, and nursing system. However, the main focus of Orem was on self-care theory. Orem has defined four meta-paradigm concepts in ...

For this brief discussion post, the author of this report has been asked to pick from a list of notable and trusted nursing theorists. For the purpose of this particular report, the person that has been chosen is Martha Rogers. The items that will be covered and summarized for this theorist will include the theorist in question, their nursing background, the fundable principles of the nursing theory put forward by that person and how those lessons and theories can be applied to the work and studies of the author of this report. It is perhaps not the only theory ...

Currently, nursing theories find wide application in nursing practice as they give the boundaries for professional conduct (George, 2011). Apart from highlighting the importance of patient-nurse relationships that emerge during caring, conceptual nursing frameworks give a comprehensive view that guides the nursing practice. Nursing theories also guide the reasoning process in professional nursing practice. Martha Roger’s, a leader in nursing, came up with one conceptual nursing paradigm called the science of unitary human beings. The theory addresses the focus of nursing and knowledge needed to develop the science of nursing. According to Roger’s, nursing is the study of human, ...