A Reaction on Martha Roger's Theory

"Unitary man" evolves along life process.
Client continuously changes and coexists with environment.

The goal of nursing according to this theorist is to maintain and promote health, prevent illness, and care for and rehabilitate ill and disabled client through "humanistic science of nursing".
As a basis of nursing research, I definitely agree on the view that nursing as a science as it is previously being introduced in our class. Nursing incorporates the disciplines of sciences and physiology, as well as nursing knowledge because these are essentials in the application of the nursing profession effectively.
In the promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative aspect therefore, science in nursing is used in order to facilitate the needs of the client.
According to nursing books that I have consulted, "The science of nursing aims to provide a body of abstract knowledge growing out of scientific research and logical analysis and capable of being translated into nursing practice. Nursing's body of scientific knowledge is a new product specific to nursing… nursing is a humanistic science." As I have mentioned earlier, it is a science because these body of logically arranged disciplines are the bases for the nursing practice.
Man as an adaptive organism is viewed in sociology as a social animal and therefore has the highest form and capability of adapting himself in different conditions of the environment. Even there are sociological discrepancies such as culture shocks and future shock (conceptualized by Alvin Toffler), man is still competent enough to undergo adaptation and has a strong coping mechanism in a fast changing environment.
Further, Martha Rogers considers man as an energy field coexisting within the universe. In the Classical-Philosophical Theory of Learning, it viewed man as a dualistic individual. I agree on this context because as dualistic individual containing the corporeal and spiritual components, it involves energy. In the biblical approach, the book of Genesis even mentioned that the life of Adam came absolutely from God when, "He gave him the breath of life in his nostrils." Therefore, life itself in man is an energy considered divine.
Man is in continuous interaction with the environment. In addition, man is a unified whole, possessing personal integrity and manifesting characteristics that are more than the sum of all the parts. With this, I agree as supported by the view that man in a holistic approach is composed of several aspects, systems and the ability to cope with environmental change.
Unitary man is a "four dimensional energy field identified by pattern and manifesting characteristics that are specific to the whole and which cannot be predicted from the knowledge of parts" (Marriner-Tomey, 1989). This further allow me to relate the structural theory of Learning in which it views man's ability to learn through the ability to understand the relationship of the structure of the subject. With this, further enhanced my understanding that Roger's theory - energy fields, openness, pattern and organization, four-dimensionality- used to derive principles about how human beings develop is actually an interrelationship with the learning process through the theories that I have mentioned.
As a conclusion, this theory as a basis of nursing research is flexible and infinite and therefore, the discipline on nursing research should also be focused and stressed in the nursing profession because this will help solve problems and questions concerning human development. This theory also convinces me to consider Psychology as indeed a strong allied force in the nursing profession.