Transcript Rosemarie Rizzo Parse Theory of Human Becoming The Theory of Human Becoming • Illuminate Meaning: client will co-participate in creating reality • Synchronizing Rhythms: dwelling.

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
Theory of Human
Becoming
The Theory of Human Becoming
• Illuminate Meaning: client will
co-participate in creating reality
• Synchronizing Rhythms: dwelling with
the pitch, yaw, and roll of the universe; living
moment to moment
• Mobilizing Transcendence: moving
beyond the meaning
Assumptions about Human and Becoming
• Human is open and free, choosing meaning
in situation and bearing responsibility for
decisions
• Becoming is the humans’ pattern of relating
values and priorities
The Theory of Human Becoming as it relates
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Client/Person
Health
Environment
Nursing
Client/Person
• Goal is to show qualities of life through
client’s perspective
• Quality of life emerges through the nurseperson process
• The nurse bears witness to the client’s own
living of value priorities
• Can be done anywhere
Health
• Parse advocates that health is flowing
progression of human becoming
• Hope is a living experience of health
inextricably connected to quality of life
• Health is living experience of ongoing
human-universe change
Environment
• The human and the environment are
mutually and simultaneously interrelating as
a unit
• The human-universe-health process is more
than and different from the sum of its parts
• Humans co-create health in relationships
with the environment
Nursing
• Presents as an alternative to bio-medical model and
the bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach
• Enhances the quality of life from each client’s own
perspective
• Parse defines the nursing practice as a science and
art. It is innovative and creative.
• Nurses’ responsibility to society is in the guiding of
individuals and their families
• The client is the authority figure and primary
decision maker
Nursing cont’d
• Nursing is not based on medical or nursing
diagnoses
• Nursing does not deal with disease
prevention or health restoration
• Being with clients and family, rather than
doing for clients and family
A framework for practice
• Personal connection between nurse and
client
• Care plan must address emotional and
psychological needs of client
A framework for practice
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Using the human connection
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Joy
Sorrow
Laughter
Compassion
Empathy
The Human Connection
What nursing ought to be…
• Monitor the client’s experiences moment to
moment
• Prevent further injury or injustice by
attending to their physical, psychological and
spiritual needs
• Teach the client to be the leader of their
health needs
Most of us agree that…
• Equilibrium in mind, body and spirit is
needed in order for a client to experience
optimum health
• The current “fix it” attitude of healthcare
denies the real need of the client’s wellness
Parse’s Human Becoming Theory values the
most idealistic views of holism…of what
nursing ought to be. Her theory could have
a huge impact on the way our society views
the role of nursing.
However…
• Verbose language of the theory makes it
hard to understand
• It is open to misinterpretation
• It is difficult to put into practice