Deck 14: Martha Rogers Science of Unitary Human Beings

Question 1

Within an energy field perspective, nurses in mutual process assist clients in:

A) Negotiating their plan of care.
B) Actualizing their field potentials by enhancing their ability to participate knowingly in change.
C) Being supported until the client can perform self-care.
D) Client-centered cooperative decision-making.

Answer 1

Actualizing their field potentials by enhancing their ability to participate knowingly in change.

Question 2

When addressing nursing practice, Rogers proposed that:

A) Nurses play a central role in health care rather than medical care.
B) Nurses utilize the nursing process to organize their practice.
C) Nursing diagnosis is the cornerstone of informed nursing practice.
D) That the utilization of the classification systems, NIC/NOC/NANDA, would finally give the profession of nursing legitimacy within the medical world.

Answer 2

Nurses play a central role in health care rather than medical care.

Question 3

Grasping meaning entails which of the following:

A) Using sensitivity and active listening
B) Conveying unconditional acceptance
C) Remaining fully open to the rhythm, movement, intensity, and configuration of pattern manifestations
D) A and B
E) All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

Roger's unique worldview focuses on the root of nursing science as:

A) Uni-dimensional.
B) Multidimensional.
C) Pandimensional.
D) Ultradimensional.

Question 5

The goal of voluntary mutual patterning is to facilitate each client's ability to:

A) Participate knowingly in change.
B) Harmonize person-environment integrality.
C) Promote healing potentialities, lifestyle changes, and well-being in the client's desired direction of change without attachment to predetermined outcomes.
D) B and C
E) All of the above

Question 6

Rogers described pattern as:

A) A reducible connected string of events.
B) Changing continuously while giving identity to each unique human-environmental field process.
C) A way to frame an individual's historical context.
D) A back-and-forth flow.

Question 7

Rogers identified the unique focus of nursing as the irreducible human being and its environment, both identified as energy fields.

Question 8

Rogers described three principles of homeodynamics to describe the nature of change in the human-environmental field process:

A) Mind, body, spirit
B) Intra, inter, and extra dimensions of reality
C) Resonancy, helicy, and integrality
D) Unitary, revolutionary, congruency

Question 9

Roger's identified four fundamental postulates that form the basis of reality and described this postulate as 'the fundamental unit of the living and the non-living':

A) Openness
B) Pattern
C) Pandimensionality
D) Energy fields

Question 10

There have been a number of theories derived from Roger's SUHB. Choose all that apply:

A) Theory of accelerating change
B) Theory of self-efficacy
C) Theory of paranormal phenomena
D) Manifestations of field patterning
E) Theory of uncertainty in illness

Question 11

A rich description of each participant's experiences, perception, and expressions created through a process of creative pattern synthesis is which essential aspects of Butcher's (2005) Unitary Field Pattern Portrait?

A) Initial engagement
B) Unitary Field pattern portrait
C) Unitary field pattern profile
D) Initial Engagement

Question 12

Rogers hypothesized that hyperactive children provide a good example of speeded-up rhythms relative to other children. They would be expected to show all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Indications of faster rhythms.
B) Increased motion.
C) Behaviors indicative of this shift.
D) A tendency toward isolative and focused activity.

Question 13

From a Unitary Science perspective, nursing diagnoses are considered particularistic and reductionistic labels describing cause and effect (i.e., "related to") relationships inconsistent with a "nonlinear domain without spatial or temporal attributes.

Question 14

Rogers, in her Theory of Accelerating Evolution, proposed that higher frequency field patterns that manifest growing diversity open the door to wider ranges of experiences and behaviors, calling into question the very idea of "norms" as guidelines.