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The Theory of Human Becoming was developed by Rosemarie Rizzo Parse to view health as an ongoing process of human-universe co-creation. The theory has 3 main themes - meaning, rhythmicity, and transcendence - which lead to principles of imagining/valuing/languaging, revealing-concealing/enabling-limiting/connecting-separating, and powering/originating/transforming. The goal of nursing under this theory is to enhance clients' quality of life from their own perspectives by bearing witness to their living of values and life priorities through the nurse-person process.

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Rosemarie Rizzo Parse: Theory of Human Becoming: Biography

The Theory of Human Becoming was developed by Rosemarie Rizzo Parse to view health as an ongoing process of human-universe co-creation. The theory has 3 main themes - meaning, rhythmicity, and transcendence - which lead to principles of imagining/valuing/languaging, revealing-concealing/enabling-limiting/connecting-separating, and powering/originating/transforming. The goal of nursing under this theory is to enhance clients' quality of life from their own perspectives by bearing witness to their living of values and life priorities through the nurse-person process.

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Rosemarie Rizzo Parse: Theory of Human Becoming

BIOGRAPHY
•Founder of the Institute of Human Becoming: teaches-ontological, epistemological, and methodological
aspects of the human becoming school of thought and professor at: Emeritus, Loyola University Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois

•Founder and current editor of Nursing Science Quarterly and currently chairs the nursing theory-guided
practiceexpert panel of the American Academy of Nursing.

•President of Discovery International, Inc. and Dean of the Nursing School (Dusquesne)

•Author of many articles and books (i.e. Fundamentals of Nursing)

•Education: Master’s and Doctorate from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh

•Achievement Award: 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to nursing

SYMBOL OF HUMAN BECOMING

•Black and white = opposite paradox significant to ontology of human becoming


and green is hope

•Center joined =co created mutual human universe process at the ontological
level & nurse-person process

•Green and black swirls intertwining = human-universe co creation as an


ongoing process of becoming

THEORY

•“Rosemarie Rizzo Parse developed the Theory of Human Becoming (now known as the Human
Becoming Schoolof Thought) through a combination of concepts from Martha Rogers and from
existential-phenomenologicalthought.

•Her nine assumptions are based on the three main themes of meaning, rhythmicity, and
transcendence.Each theme leads to a principle:

O meaning -relates to imagining, valuing, and languaging;

O rhythmicity -relates to revealing-concealing, enabling-limiting, and connecting-


separating

O transcendence- relates to powering, originating, and transforming.

•Each of the principles has a practice dimension and process.”

CASE STUDY

Imaging-an infertile couple believes there are manychildren who are in need of loving homes and planto
adopt

Valuing- an older woman putting her health first as her children have all moved out of the house

Languaging- a man diagnosed with terminal cancer findsthe strength to talk with his wife about his fears
andconcerns

Revealing-Concealing-a young teen must unveil her secretto her parents of being pregnant

Enabling-Limiting- a family must choose the course of treatment for a 5 year old recently diagnosed
with leukemia:must chose to stay home or travel to receive treatments

Connecting-Separating- parents feeling there is moreaggressive treatment for their daughter who is
receiving palliative care at the request of her husband causing arelationship to be strained

Powering- parents must continue on with every day lifeand support their remaining children after the
loss of their oldest child in an accident
Originating-a woman campaigns to raise money for breast cancer in honour of her grandmother

Transforming- an elderly man now accepts outside ashe can no longer provide adequate care for
himself andhis wife who has Alzheimer’s

The Theory of Human Becoming as it relates to:

Client/Person:

 Goal is to show qualities of life through


clients perspective
 Quality of life emerges through the nurse-person
process
 The nurse bears witness to the clients 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 clients
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

Question:

1.)The assumptions of the humanbecoming school of thought are written on the ___________ level
of discourse:
A. Ontological
B. Epistemological
C. Philosophical
D. Theoretical ANS: C

2.)The goal of nursing from the humanbecoming perspective is:


A. Patient wellness.
B. Quality of life.
C. Overcoming disease.
D. Patient-centered care. ANS: B

3.)According to Parse, true presence is a _____________ connection


A. Human-universe
B. Medical-spiritual
C. Nurse-patient
D. Patient-wellness ANS: A

4.)According to Parse, a basic human science that has co-created human experiences as its central
focus is called:
A. Humanbecoming.
B. Being and becoming.
C. Human co-creation.
D. None of the above. ANS: A

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