Martha Elizabeth Rogers

Martha Elizabeth Rogers Martha Elizabeth Rogers was born in Dallax Texas on May 12, 1914, the oldest of four children in a family, which strongly valued education. Martha Roger and her family moved to Knoxville, TN where she attended the University of Tennessee in l93l taking undergraduate science courses for 2 years. But then she entered nursing school at Knoxville General Hospital, received her nursing diploma in 1936. She completed a BSN in Public Health Nursing from George Peabody College in l937. Martha Rogers started of working as a public health nurse in Connecticut. In l945, she earned a master's degree in public health nursing supervision from Teacher's College Columbia University. After receiving a Master of Arts degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1945, she accepted the position of executive director of the Phoenix Visiting Nurse Association in Arizona, where she remained for six years. In 1952, she received a master's degree in public health and in 1954, a doctor of science degree, both from Johns Hopkins University. In 1954, Rogers was appointed professor of nursing and head of the Division of Nursing at New York University. Committed to baccalaureate education for nurses, Rogers opposed continued use of curricula based on a medical model and recommended that nursing faculty be prepared at the doctoral level. In the next twenty-one years, Martha Rogers initiated curriculum revisions, theory based learning, and the establishment of a five-year Bachelor of Science degree program at New York University. During the same period, she developed the theory she identified as "a paradigm for nursing -- the science of unitary human beings," and conducted "philosophical and theoretical investigations of the nature and direction of unitary human development. “ Martha Rogers is widely known for her discovery of the science of unitary human beings, Martha E. Rogers provided a framework for continued study and research, and influenced