Human Becoming

Human Becoming (Engl. For Human Will) is an originally entitled Human Life Health (Engl. You Living-Health ) in the 1981 United States of America from the nursing scientist Rosemarie Rizzo Parse- posted to care model . She called to her theory in 1992, as the use of the word it had shifted from the importance humanity on man.

According to Parse's theory, man is an irreducible, dynamic and complex whole. It refers thus in part on the energy field theory of Rogers , which defines man as biological-psychological-social-spiritual organism. According to Parse, humans are more than the sum of their parts and live in a complex environment. At the same time, Parse sees human development as a dynamic part of time: present, past and future.

Basic assumptions

To understand Parse's theory, one must consider its nine basic assumptions of human becoming:

• In addition to his own rhythm, humans also have a share in creating universal rhythmic patterns.
• The human being is free and responsible.
• Man as a living and individual being is constantly creating new relationship patterns.
• The boundaries of the experience of the individual are crossed multidimensionally, he transcends within his possibilities.
• Becoming is an open process that can be experienced individually.
• Becoming is a rhythmic process that takes place in interaction between humans and the universe.
• Becoming is part of the human relationship with values ​​and priorities.
• Becoming is a process of crossing borders that can be experienced in an individual context.
• Becoming is the development of man.

Principles

From these nine basic assumptions, Parse formulates three principles:

• Principle 1: Structuring meaning multidimensionally is cocreating reality through the languaging of valuing and imaging. Parse describes people's attempts to orientate themselves in their environment, they create ideas (imaging) that are dependent on their individual values ​​and social norms (valuing). These ideas are communicated to other people through verbal or non-verbal communication (languaging).

• Principle 2: Cocreating rhythmical patterns of relating is living the paradoxical unity of revealing-concealing and enabling-limiting while connecting-separating. This means the creation of rhythmic relationship patterns that are used to develop this worldview individually or with other people. Parse uses paradoxes to describe this principle, which, according to her understanding, are not opposites, but rather enable people to develop rhythmic patterns, to find their place and to deal with contradictions and opposites.

• Principle 3: Cotranscending with the possibles is powering unique ways of originating in the process of transforming. Parse hereby describes the constant process of change in humans that follows the first two principles. According to Parse, humans deal with the environment (powering), which creates new perspectives of the individual (originating) that ultimately bring about changes (transforming).

Nursing evaluation

In addition to the possibilities to implement such a model economically in nursing, which are limited by regulations and legal requirements, the high level of abstraction is particularly criticized. One of the questions that is not dealt with extensively arises where the well-groomed are restricted in their means of communication.

literature

• Kathleen Sitzman, Lisa Wright Eichelberger: Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists: A Creative Beginning Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010 ISBN 978-0763778163 (English) p. 193 ff.
• Marilyn E. Parker: Patterns of Nursing Theories in Practice National League for Nursing, 1993 ISBN 978-0887376009 (English) p. 49
• Rosemarie Rizzo-Parse: Man-living-health: Theory of Nursing John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1981 ISBN 978-0471044437 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} A. Pearson, B. Vaughan, M. Fitzgerald: Nursing Models for Practice Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., 2004 ISBN 978-0750654425 (English) p. 199
2. ↑ ^{a b} Norbert v. Kampen: Theory formation in nursing: A critical reception of American nursing models Mabuse, 2003 ISBN 978-3929106558 p. 56 ff.