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Patterns of Rogerian Knowing (National League for Nursing Series (All Nln Titles)

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The late Martha Rogers correctly identified a number of problems with the health care system, including impersonalization of patients, the low professional status accorded to nursing, and a tendency of the medical profession to overspecialize thus missing broader issues that often affect patient well-being.

In an overreaction, Rogers created an ersatz "Theory of Nursing" based on her misunderstanding of physics, biology, the philosophy of science, and much else. This has led to misguided beliefs in occult phenomena and even to a rejection of the common-sense, empirically-based idea that therapy is causal and that we can objectively determine the effectiveness and safety of a therapeutic regime. An example is "touch therapy", which has been discredited in repeated tests, but which is still believed in by Rogerian nursing theorists and practitioners.

This collection gives many examples of Rogers writing what is clearly wrong, nonsensical, or self-contradictory. As such, it is a suitable book to give to students who wish to learn how to recognize scientific incompetence and, by asking them to find its errors, how to think critically.