Joyce Fitzpatrick
Life Perspective Rhythm Model: Joyce Fitzpatrick
Joyce Fitzpatrick
Background
Joyce Fitzpatrick presented a rhythm model for the field of
inquiry of nursing. A developmental model that proposes that the process of
human development is characterized by rhythms.
Fitzpatrick incorporated Rogers’ (1983) postulated correlates of
human development as the basis for differentiation, organizing and ordering
life’s reality. Rogers’ correlates of shorter, higher frequency waves that
manifest shorter rhythms and approach as seemingly continuous pattern which
serves as Fitzpatrick foci for hypothesizing the existence of rhythmic
patterns.
Key Concept
The Life Perspective Rhythm Model concludes that the process of
human development is characterized by rhythms that occur within the context of
continuous person-environment interaction and that nursing activities basically
focus on strengthening the developmental process towards health.
Major Concepts
Life Perspective Rhythm Model has four (4) content concepts:
1. Person
- Person includes both self and others.
- The person is treated as an open, holistic, rhythmic system
that can be described by indices of holistic human functioning as temporal,
motion, consciousness and perceptual pattern.
- Person is seen as an open system, a unified whole characterized
by a basic human rhythm.
- The model recognizes individuals as having unique
biological, psychological, emotional, social, cultural and spiritual attitudes.
2. Health
- Health is a dynamic state of being that results from
the interaction of person and the environment.
- A human dimension under continuous development, a
heightened awareness of the meaningfulness of life.
- Optimum health is the actualization of both innate and obtained
human potential gathered from rewarding relationships with others, goal
directed behavior and expert personal care.
- Fitzpatrick has asserted that the four (4) indices of human
functioning are intricately related to health patterns throughout the life span
and these indices are rhythmic in nature.
3. Wellness- illness
- Differences in behavioral manifestations are more easily
identified during the peaks and troughs of particular human rhythms throughout
the developmental process.
- According to Fitzpatrick, there are patterns within a
pattern or overall life patterns, where Life pattern continues toward
timelessness, becoming more dominant as one development occurs.
- Professional nursing is rooted in the promotion of
wellness practices.
4. Nursing
- A developing discipline whose central concern is the
meaning attached to life (health)
- Meaning is viewed as the central component of the human
experience and is necessary to enhance and maintain life.
- Fitzpatrick stated that the primary purpose of nursing is
the promotion and maintenance of an optimal level of wellness.
References:
33 Greatest Nursing Models and Theories to Practice (Online)
Available at http://www.nursebuff.com/2014/10/nursing-theories Accessed:
September 13, 2016
Cardinal Stritch University Library (Online) Available
at http://www.stritch.edu/Library/Doing-Research/Research-by-Subject/Health-Sciences-Nursing-Theorists/Joyce-J--Fitzpatrick---Rhythm-Model/
Accessed: September 13, 2016
Meaning in Life: Translating Nursing Concepts to Research (PDF
File) Available
at https://www.kan.or.kr/kor/shop_sun/files/anr_img/200801/1.pdf Accessed:
September 13, 2016
Nurses info. for nurses everywhere (Online) Available
at http://www.nurses.info/nursing_theory_person_fitzpatrick_joyce.htm
Accessed: September 13, 2016
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