Question

Discuss Pares - theory of human becoming

Answer 1

Ans) Parse’s Human Becoming Theory guides the practice of nurses to focus on quality of life as it is described and lived. The human becoming theory of nursing presents an alternative to both the conventional bio-medical approach as well as the bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach of most other theories and models of nursing. Parse’s model rates quality of life from each person’s own perspective as the goal of the practice of nursing. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse first published the theory in 1981 as the “Man-living-health” theory, and the name was changed to the “human becoming theory” in 1992.

- Parse’s Human Becoming Theory guides the practice of nurses to focus on quality of life as it is described and lived. The human becoming theory of nursing presents an alternative to both the conventional bio-medical approach as well as the bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach of most other theories and models of nursing. Parse’s model rates quality of life from each person’s own perspective as the goal of the practice of nursing. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse first published the theory in 1981 as the “Man-living-health” theory, and the name was changed to the “human becoming theory” in 1992.

- The assumptions underpinning the theory were synthesized from works by European philosophers. The theory is structured around three abiding themes: meaning, rhythmicity, and transcendence.

- The model makes assumptions about man and becoming, as well as three major assumptions about human becoming.

The Human Becoming Theory makes the following assumptions about man:

• The human is coexistent while co-constituting rhythmical patterns with the universe.
The human is open, freely choosing meaning in a situation, as well as bearing responsibility for decisions

• Human is unitary with human-living-health.
Becoming is a rhythmically co-constituting the human-universe process.
• Becoming is the human’s patterns of relating value priorities.
• Becoming is an intersubjective process of transcending with the possibles.
Becoming is the unitary human’s emerging.

• major assumptions about human becoming are: meaning, rhythmicity, and transcendence.

• Under the assumption meaning, human becoming is freely choosing personal meaning in situations in the intersubjective process of living value priorities. Man’s reality is given meaning through lived experiences. In addition, man and environment co-create.

• Rhythmicity states that human becoming is co-creating rhythmical patterns of relating in mutual process with the universe. Man and environment co-create (imaging, valuing, languaging) in rhythmical patterns.