This document provides biographical information about Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, a nurse scholar who developed the Theory of Human Becoming. It outlines her educational background and professional roles, including positions held at various universities. It also describes her publications and honors/awards. Key elements of Parse's theory are defined, including its origins in the works of Rogers and existential philosophers. The theory's three principles of structuring meaning, cocreating rhythmic patterns, and contranscending with possibles are explained with examples. Parse's theory represents the simultaneity paradigm in nursing.

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(HUMAN BECOMING SCHOOL OF THOUGHT)

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3. Educated at Duquesne University in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania & earned her
master’s & doctoral degrees from the University
of Pittsburgh.
Member of the faculty of the University of
Pittsburgh, Dean of the Nursing School at
Duquesne University.
Professor & Coordinator of the Center for
Nursing Research at Hunter College of the
City University of New York (1983-1993)
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4. Professor & Niehoff Chair at Loyola
University in Chicago, Illinois (1993-2006).
Fellow in the American Academy of
Nursing
Consultant & Visiting scholar at the New
York University College of Nursing
Founder & current editor of
Nursing Science Quarterly
President of Discovery International
Inc.
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5. With two Lifetime Achievement Awards
(Midwest Nursing Research Society and Asian
Nurses’ Association)
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse Scholarship at
the Henderson State University School of
Nursing.
Published 9 books and more than 100
articles and editorials about matters pertinent
to nursing .
Outstanding contributions to the profession of
nursing through her progressive leadership in
nursing theory, research, education,
and practice.
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6. SYMBOL OF HUMAN BECOMING
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
BLACK &
WHITE
OPPOSITE
PARADOX
SIGNIFICANT
TO ONTOLOGY
OF HUMAN
BECOMING &
GREEN IS
HOPE
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GREEN &
BLACK
swirls
intertwining
HUMAN-UNIVERSE
CO
CREATION AS
AN ONGOING
PROCESS OF
BECOMING
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CENTER JOINED
CO CREATED MUTUAL HUMAN
UNIVERSE PROCESS AT THE
ONTOLOGICAL LEVEL & NURSE-PERSON
PROCESS

7. WARNING: ONLY THE THREE
OF THEM ARE AVAILABLE…
JUN PYO IS ALREADY TAKEN…
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8. Find the hidden man hanging at Machu Pichu…
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!
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9.  Parse first published the
theory in 1981 as the “MAN-LIVING-
HEALTH” theory.
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10. Parse synthesized the Theory of Human
Becoming from principles and concepts from
Rogers’ work.
She also incorporated concepts and principles
from existential phenomenological
thought as expressed by Heidegger, Sartre,
and Merleau-Ponty.
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11. “Man-Living-Health”
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12. 2 PARADIGMS (WORDVIEWS OF NURSING)
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I. TOTALITY PARADIGM
 Man is a combination of biological,
psychological, sociological & spiritual factors.
II. SIMULTANEITY PARADIGM
 Man is a unitary being in continuous, mutual
interaction with environment.

13. Man-Living-Health
THEORY OF HUMAN
BECOMING
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14. MAY ASIM
PA AKO
NOH!!!
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15. Apart from the Rose, what else can you see ???
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16.  Parse’s theory was derived
from the concepts of Rogers &
existential thought.
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17.  Parse’s (1981) original nine assumptions are
the following:
 Man is coexisting while coconstituting
rhythmical patterns with the environment.
 Man is an open being, freely choosing
meaning in situation, bearing responsibility
for decisions.
 Man is a living unity continuously
coconstituting patterns of relating.
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18.  Man is transcending multidimensionally
with the possibles.
Health is an open process of becoming,
experienced by man.
Health is a rhythmically coconstituting
process of the man-environment
interrelationship.
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19.  Health is man’s pattern of relating
value priorities.
 Health is an intersubjective process of
transcending with the possibles.
Health is unitary man’s negentropic
unfolding .
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20.  Using Parse’s 1992 language revision, the original
nine assumptions now read as four assumptions
concerning humans & five assumptions concerning
becoming. They are:
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HUMAN
The human is coexisting while coconstituting
rhythmical patterns with the universe.
The human is an open being, freely choosing
meaning in situation, bearing responsibility for
decisions.
The human is a living unity continuously
coconstituting patterns of relating.
The human is transcending multidimensionally
with the possibles.

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BECOMING
Becoming is an open process, experienced
by the human.
Becoming is rhythmically coconstituting
process of the human-universe
interrelationship.
Becoming is the human’s pattern of relating
value priorities.
Becoming is an intersubjective process of
transcending with the possibles.
Becoming is human unfolding.

22. ANYONE WHO
WOULD LIKE TO
ADOPT ME ???
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23. Look for “The Hidden Tiger” in the image
below, where is the hidden tiger?
READ BETWEEN THE LINES!
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24.  The three themes in
Parse’s assumptions are:
meaning, rhythmicity &
contranscendence.
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25. THREE PRINCIPLES
IN THE THEORY:
 Structuring meaning
multidimensionality is cocreating
reality through the languaging of valuing &
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imaging.

26. 1. IMAGING
 An infertile couple believes there are many
children in need of loving homes and plan to
adopt .
2. VALUING
 An older woman putting her health first as her
children have all moved out of the house .
3. LANGUAGING
 A man diagnosed with terminal cancer finds
the words and the strength to talk to his family
about it .
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27.  Cocreating rhythmical
patterns of relating is living the
paradoxical unity of revealing-concealing
and enabling-limiting while connecting-separating.
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28. 1. REVEALING-CONCEALING
 A pregnant youth must reveal her secret to her
parents.
2. ENABLING-LIMITING
 A patient chooses to refuse a treatment.
3. CONNECTING-SEPARATING
 Parents want more aggressive treatment for
their palliative care daughter; her husband
disagrees straining the relationship.
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29.  Contranscending with the
possibles is powering the unique ways
of originating in the process of transforming.
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30. 1. POWERING
 Parents learn to be strong and move on with
life after losing their youngest child in an
accident.
2. ORIGINATING
 A woman raises money for breast cancer
research to honor her grandmother.
3. TRANSFORMING
 An elderly man finally accepts outside help as
he is no longer able to care for his wife.
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33. Can you see the sleeping baby in the tree?
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34.  The works of Parse
and that of Rogers are
representative of the
simultaneity paradigm.
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35. HUMANS The unitary human is one
who “co-participates in the universe in
creating becoming and who is whole, open,
free to choose ways of becoming.
HEALTH A way of being in the world;
it is not a continuum of healthy to ill, nor it is
a dichotomy of health or illness, rather it is
the living of day-to-day ways of being.
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36. NURSING A scientific discipline, the
practice of which is a performing art. She
places nursing in the company of drama,
music, and dance, in each of which the
artist creates something unique.
ENVIRONMENT The world, the
universe and those who occupy spaces
along with others who freely choose to be
in the situation.
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39. What else can you spot in this figure, aside
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from the lion???

40. ASSESSMENT & NSG DX
Assessment & Dx do not fit with this theory as
Parse states the nurse-client interaction is not
limited by prescriptions.
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PLANNING
Nurse is a guide, not a decision maker.
Interaction is evolving.

41. IMPLEMENTATION
Nurse serves as a guide to illuminate meaning-guides Mrs.
James to identify the personal meaning of the situation to her;
to synchronize rhythms -lead Mrs. James to recognize the
harmony within her existence; & to mobilize transcendence
-guide Mrs. James to move from the present to what is not yet,
to dream of the possibles for her.
EVALUATION
Because the interaction is not limited to prescription, standards
of evaluation cannot be created. Essentially the nurse can
evaluate if Mrs. James has identified personal meaning,
recognized harmony, & dreamed of the possibles.
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43. Aside from the face of the tiger, what else
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can you see???

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