Martha Rogers

Introduction

Martha Rogers' SUHB theory boasts a new gaze at nursing, providing a structure for perform, learning and study that moves away from the traditional health model approach to the delivery of nursing care. Rogers' framework allows for an alternative to traditional nursing, which can be construed as reductionistic, mechanistic and analytic.(Leach, 112) This framework includes an open system world view, and thus, has challenged many traditional ideas about nursing.

Five basic assumptions underlay Rogers' conceptual structure: wholeness, openness, Unidirectionality, pattern and association, and sentience and thought. First, the human being is advised a unified whole which is more than the addition ...