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HUMAN BECOMING THEORY

  • The Parse theory of human becoming guides nurses In their practice to focus on quality of life as it is described and lived (Karen & Melnechenko, 1995).

  • The human becoming theory of nursing presents an alternative to both the conventional bio-medical approach and the bio-psycho-social-spiritual (but still normative) approach of most other theories of nursing.(ICPS)

  • The human becoming theory posits quality of life from each person's own perspective as the goal of nursing practice.(ICPS)

  • Rosemarie Rizzo Parse first published the theory in 1981 as the "Man-living-health" theory (ICPS)

  • The name was officially changed to "the human becoming theory" in 1992 to remove the term "man," after the change in the dictionary definition of the word from its former meaning of "humankind."

ABOUT THE THEORIST

  • Educated at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

  • MSN and Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh

  • Published her theory of nursing, Man-Living-Health in 1981

  • Name changed to Theory of Human Becoming in 1992

  • Editor and Founder, Nursing Science Quarterly

  • Has published eight books and hundreds of articles about Human Becoming Theory

  • Professor and Niehoff Chair at Loyola University, Chicago

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

THEORY DEVELOPMENT

  • The human becoming theory was developed as a human science nursing theory in the tradition of Dilthey, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Gadamer and Science of Unitary Human Beings by Martha Rogers .

  • The assumptions underpinning the theory were synthesized from works by the European philosophers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, along with works by the pioneer American nurse theorist, Martha Rogers.

  • The theory is structured around three abiding themes: meaning, rhythmicity, and transcendence.

ASSUMPTIONS

About man

  • The human is coexisting while coconstituting rhythmical patterns with the universe.

  • The human is open, freely choosing meaning in situation, bearing responsibility for decisions.

  • The human is unitary, continuously coconstituting patterns of relating.

  • The human is transcending multidimensionally with the possibles

About Becoming

  • Becoming is unitary human-living-health.

  • Becoming is a rhythmically coconstituting human-universe process.

  • Becoming is the human’s patterns of relating value priorities.

  • Becoming is an intersubjective process of transcending with the possibles.

  • Becoming is unitary human’s emerging

Three Major Assumptions of Human Becoming

  • Meaning

    • Human Becoming is freely choosing personal meaning in situations in the intersubjective process of living value priorities.

    • Man’s reality is given meaning through lived experiences

    • Man and environment cocreate

  • Rhythmicity

    • Human Becoming is cocreating rhythmical patterns of relating in mutual process with the universe.

    • Man and environment cocreate ( imaging, valuing, languaging) in rhythmical patterns

  • Transcendence

    • Human Becoming is cotranscending multidimensionally with emerging possibles.

    • Refers to reaching out and beyond the limits that a person sets

    • One constantly transforms

NURSING PARADIGM

  • Person

    • Open being who is more than and different from the sum of the parts

  • Environment

    • Everything in the person and his experiences

    • Inseparable, complimentary to and evolving with

  • Health

    • Open process of being and becoming. Involves synthesis of values

  • Nursing

    • A human science and art that uses an abstract body of knowl

ARNAFELY S. EDRADAN & LYCA MAE CLOR

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