HUMAN BECOMING THEORY

HUMAN BECOMING PARADIGM

MEANING 

- "Structuring meaning is the imaging and valuing of languaging" (Parse, 2014, p. 37). 

- This principle means that people co-participate in creating what is real for them as shown in their expressions of living their values in a chosen way.

RHYTHMICITY 

-"Configuring rhythmical patterns is the revealing-concealing and enabling-limiting of connecting-separating" (Parse, 2014, p. 43). 

-This principle means that living paradox encompasses apparent opposite experiences that coexist in rhythmical patterns. It means that in living moment-to-moment one shows and does not show opportunities and limitations that emerge in moving with and apart from others.

TRANSCENDENCE

- "Cotranscending with possibles is the powering and originating of transforming" (Parse, 2014, p. 47). 

- This principle means that moving with now moments is living the becoming visible-invisible becoming with the ambiguity of the continuous change of the emerging now.

FOUR POSTULATES

ILLIMITABILITY 

- "The indivisible unbounded knowing extended to infinity, the all-at-once remembering and prospecting with the emerging now" (Parse, 2014, p. 36). 

PARADOX 

- "An intricate rhythm expressed as a pattern preference" (Parse, 2014, p. 36). 

- Paradoxes are not "opposites to be reconciled or dilemmas to be overcome but, rather, liv[ing] rhythms" (Parse, 2007, p. 309).

FREEDOM 

- "Contextually construed liberation" (Parse, 2014, p. 36). Humans are free and continuously choose ways of becoming with their situations. 

MYSTERY 

- "The unexplainable, that which cannot be completely known unequivocally" (Parse, 2014, p. 36). 

- It is the inconceivable, unutterable, unknowable nature of the indivisible, unpredictable, everchanging humanuniverse (Parse, 2007, 2008).

The Theory in Relation to PERSON, NURSING/NURSE, HEALTH, and ENVIRONMENT





PERSON

· “Open being who is more than and different from the sum of the parts”
· Sole decision maker for his own. He became what he is because of how he lived and he has the knowledge of what is best for him and what can make his condition better.




HEALTH

· It is not the presence or absence of illness but it is viewed as a reflection of a person’s values and how he became because of his practices.
· It is product of human interaction with the universe as it changes continuously.





ENVIRONMENT

· The environment consists of the person, the people around him and his experience with them.
· The environment reflects what the person is. When you look at the family of the patient, you see the patient in them.






NURSING/NURSE

· It is basic human science wherein learned expertise in care is used to assist people.
· A process of human interaction between the patient and nurse.
· Giving value and acknowledging the need of the patient is significant in promoting quality life.
· The nurse serves as a guide by presenting options to change way of life but it is still the patient’s decision that is to be considered.
· The nurse should listen to the patient and respect his ideas even if it is in contrast to what is best for his condition.
· The aim of the nurse is not to correct the problem of the patient.



References:

http://nursingsolutions.co.uk
www.notalonemon.com
http://www.scielo.br/img/revistas/tce/v22n4/en_37f01.jpg

http://www.humanbecoming.org/human-becoming.php