So many changes has been made in our healthcare delivery system intensifying nurses’ responsibilities and workloads. Registered nurses are asked to now deal on an ongoing basis with patients’ increased acuity and complexities especially regarding their healthcare situations. Despite such demands, nurses are told to search for ways to preserve their holistic ways of practicing and Rosemarie Parses’ Human Becoming theory can be seen to be indeed indispensable to this goal. Through this paper, I will explore the very important elements of Rosemarie Parses’ human becoming theory and in a clinical application, explain how it can be applied by nurses in their practice as well as their settings.
Being informed about Parses’ Human Becoming theory does …show more content…
It is complex, abstract in nature and it’s synthesized and constructed under the frame work of another theorists Martha Rogers. Parse’s theory is structured around three abiding themes which are Transcendence, Meaning and Rhythmicity. With meaning, Parse establishes that humans usually will find meaning from their situations based on their experiences. As such human beings choose freely especially in regards to their experiences and further give meaning through “lived experiences as they constantly co-create with their environment” ( Parse 1987).
With Rhythmicity, human beings co-create with their environment thus creating patterns. Here, humans “reveal, conceal, enable and separate from their experiences as different situations arise in their lives and continue to forge ahead thus facilitating patterns, ways of live, meanings to events that they have experienced” (Nursing science: Major paradigms, theories, and critiques …show more content…
In essence, the change that usually takes place helps culminates into the creation of new patterns and personal values. One now begins to assert that Parse’s theory is mostly surrounded by inductive reasoning as she gathered data from lived experiences of humans and came up with the hypotheses of human beings being open and how they live in mutual process with their universe thus” co-creating relationship patterns that helps explains their experiences in life” (Man-living Health 1981). For instance, a nurse working with individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. The nurse gathers information from the patient and their families and bases her stance that the patients “are unitary beings, which freely choose their health patterns during a life experience then bringing their beliefs, values, cultures into place to better help them and their families go beyond the present” (Parse 2004). This relationship describes how nurses through the doctrines of Parse, show concerns, care towards the patients and families subjective and deeper meaning to their lived experiences and connections with their environments, creating connections and relationships. The theory of human Becoming explains how the patients’ personal views and values are considered of utmost primary importance. Here, both the nurse and patients have their phenomenal fields and this helps them blend as the