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'''Martha Elizabeth Rogers''' (May 12, 1914 – March 13, 1994) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author. She was born in Dallas Texas, the oldest of four children of Bruce Taylor Rogers and Lucy Mulholland Keener Rogers. She began college at the University of Tennessee, studying pre-med (1931-1933) and withdrew due to pressure that medicine was an unsuitable career for a woman. She enrolled in the Knoxville General Hospital School of nursing with a friend and received her diploma in 1936 and the following year she completed her BS at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. She went on to specialize in public health nursing, working in Michigan, Connecticut, and Arizona, where she established the Visiting Nurse Service of Phoenix, Arizona. She continued her education, receiving a M.A. in public health nursing from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York in 1945, an M.P.H. in 1952 and a Sc.D. in 1954, both from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Between 1952 and 1975 she was a Professor and Head of the Division of Nursing at New York University, after which she was recognized as a Professor Emeritus in 1979. She died March 13, 1994 and is buried in Knoxville, Tennessee. Rogers is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. |
'''Martha Elizabeth Rogers''' (May 12, 1914 – March 13, 1994) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author. She was born in Dallas Texas, the oldest of four children of Bruce Taylor Rogers and Lucy Mulholland Keener Rogers. She began college at the University of Tennessee, studying pre-med (1931-1933) and withdrew due to pressure that medicine was an unsuitable career for a woman. She enrolled in the Knoxville General Hospital School of nursing with a friend and received her diploma in 1936 and the following year she completed her BS at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. She went on to specialize in public health nursing, working in Michigan, Connecticut, and Arizona, where she established the Visiting Nurse Service of Phoenix, Arizona. She continued her education, receiving a M.A. in public health nursing from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York in 1945, an M.P.H. in 1952 and a Sc.D. in 1954, both from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Between 1952 and 1975 she was a Professor and Head of the Division of Nursing at New York University, after which she was recognized as a Professor Emeritus in 1979. She died March 13, 1994 and is buried in Knoxville, Tennessee. Rogers is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. |
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Rogers, M. E. (1989). An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis. |
Rogers, M. E. (1989). An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis. |
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Tomey, A. M. & Alligood, M. R. (1998). Nursing Theorists and Their Work, 4th ed. Boston: Mosby. |
Tomey, A. M. & Alligood, M. R. (1998). Nursing Theorists and Their Work, 4th ed. Boston: Mosby. |
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Revision as of 18:09, 1 March 2008
Martha Elizabeth Rogers (May 12, 1914 – March 13, 1994) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author. She was born in Dallas Texas, the oldest of four children of Bruce Taylor Rogers and Lucy Mulholland Keener Rogers. She began college at the University of Tennessee, studying pre-med (1931-1933) and withdrew due to pressure that medicine was an unsuitable career for a woman. She enrolled in the Knoxville General Hospital School of nursing with a friend and received her diploma in 1936 and the following year she completed her BS at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. She went on to specialize in public health nursing, working in Michigan, Connecticut, and Arizona, where she established the Visiting Nurse Service of Phoenix, Arizona. She continued her education, receiving a M.A. in public health nursing from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York in 1945, an M.P.H. in 1952 and a Sc.D. in 1954, both from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Between 1952 and 1975 she was a Professor and Head of the Division of Nursing at New York University, after which she was recognized as a Professor Emeritus in 1979. She died March 13, 1994 and is buried in Knoxville, Tennessee. Rogers is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing.
References:
Rogers, M. E. (1989). An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.
Tomey, A. M. & Alligood, M. R. (1998). Nursing Theorists and Their Work, 4th ed. Boston: Mosby.