Rosemarie
Rizzo Parse
Human Becoming
theory
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Course : Nursing Theories
Faculty : Ma’am Amber Hussain
Sir Rahim Jindani
Presented by : Sabahat Qamar
7th semester , 4th year
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Objectives
At the end of this presentation the learners will be able to:
Introduce the theorist Rosemarie parse.
Introduce the theory of Human Becoming.
List the assumptions of Parse's Theory
Define the main concepts of the theory
Conclude the theory
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Background
■ She born in 1928 .
■ Graduated from Duquesne University in
Pittsburgh, where she later served as the
dean of nursing.
■ Master’s and Doctorate from the University
of Pittsburgh.
■ Professor and Coordinator of the Center for
Nursing Research at Hunter College of the
City of New York (1983-1993)
■ Professor and Niehoff Chair at Loyola
University Chicago (1993-2006).
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Published Author
■ Published 9 books
■ Over 100 articles
■ Renowned speaker on Nursing
Education, Theory to over 300 local,
national and international venues in
30 different countries on 5
continents
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Awards
■ Lifetime Achievement Awards from:
– Nursing Research Society
– Asian American Pacific Islander
Nursesa
■ Rosemarie Rizzo Parse Scholarship
endowed in her name at the Henderson
State College of Nursing
■ Society of Rogerian Scholars honored her
by awarding the Martha E. Rogers:
Golden Slinky Award
■ 2008 New York Times Nurse Educator of
the Year Award
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Consultant and Visiting Scholar at the
New York University College of Nursing
Founder and current Editor of Nursing
Science Quarterly
Currently . . .
President of Discovery International, inc.
Founder of the Institute of Human
becoming
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SYMBOL OF HUMAN BECOMING THEORY
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
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Assumption Of Human Becoming
The human is:
Co-existing while co-constituting rhythmical patterns with environment .
Open, freely choosing meaning with situation, bearing responsibility for decisions.
Transcending
Becoming is:
unitary human-living-health.
Rhythmically constituting human universe
Human’s value priority patterns
Transcending with possible
Unitary Human’s emerging
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MAIN CONCEPT :
Meaning: An ever changing interpretation one gives to what is valued
and the ways in which these interpretations reflects the persons reality.
Rhythmicity: The cadent mutual pattering of the human-universe
mutual process.
Transcendence: Reaching beyond the possible the hopes and dreams
envisioned in multidimensional experiences.
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PRINCIPLE 1:
Meaning: An ever changing interpretation one gives to what is valued
and the ways in which these interpretations reflects the persons reality.
Imaging (reflective pre-reflective)
Valuing (confirming---not-conforming)
Languaging (speaking-being silent
moving—being still)
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MAIN CONCEPT
Valuing: A person’s choosing , prizing, and acting on those symbols that have
meaning in the person’s life.
Imaging : Picturing meaning from both concrete experience and from imagined
experience, this imaging is both spontaneous to and personal to each individual’s
worldview.
Languaging: Sharing valued images through symbols of words, gestures, gaze,
touch and posture ; the way human beings represent personal structures of reality .
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PRINCIPLE 2:
Rhythmicity: The cadent mutual pattering of the human-universe mutual
process.
Revealing-Concealing
Enabling-Limiting
Connecting--Seperating
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PRINCIPLE 3:
Transcendence: Reaching beyond the possible the hopes and dreams
envisioned in multidimensional experiences.
Powering
Originating
Transformation
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MAIN CONCEPT
Powering : The pushing resisting process of affirming not affirming in the light of nonbeing.
Originating : Inventing new ways of conforming-nonconforming in the certainty-
uncertainty.
Transforming: Shifting the view of the familiar-unfamiliar, the changing of change in co-
consituting anew in deliberate way.
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METAPARADIGMS
Human: intentional beings involved with their world , having a fundamental nature of
knowing being present, and open to their world(Parse, 1998) The human is one who coo
participates in the universe in creating becoming and who is whole open and free to choose
ways of becoming.
Health: A way of being in the world ;it is not a continuum of healthy to ill, nor is it a
dichotomy of health or illness ,rather it is the living of day-to-day ways of being.
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ROSEMARIE PARSE
Environment: The world, the universe , and those who occupy spaces along with others
who freely choose to be in situation.
Nursing: Grounded in the view that the human is a unitary being who is free to choose in
situations , nursing is guiding humans towards ways of being, finding meaning in situations,
choosing ways of cocreating their own health, are living true presence in the day-to-dayness of
the person’s reality
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ROSEMARIE PARSE
ADVANTAGES/Strengths
Differentiates nursing from other disciplines.
Practice - Provides guidelines of care and useful administration.
Useful in Education.
Provides research methodologies.
Provides framework to guide inquiry of other theories (grief, hope, laughter, etc.).
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ROSEMARIE PARSE
Limitations/weakness
Research considered to be in a “closed circle”.
Rarely quantifiable results - Difficult to compare to other research studies, no control
group, standardized questions, etc.
Does not utilized the nursing process/diagnoses.
Negates the idea that each person engages in a unique lived experience.
Not accessible to the novice nurse.
Not applicable to acute, emergent care.
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REFERENCES
Cody, W. K., & Bourne's, D.A. (May, 2010). Human becoming:
Parse's human becoming school of thought, The International
Consortium of Parse Scholars.
George, J. B. (2011). Nursing theories: The base for professional
nursing practice (6thed.)
Masters, K. (2012). Nursing theories: A framework for professional
practice. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Parse, R. R. (1998).The human becoming school of thought: A
perspective for nurses and other health professionals.
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Human Becoming
is the journey to
become the best
human we can be
each and
everyday
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