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                                                 JOYCE FITZPATRICK

 

  • Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio

  • Holds an adjunct position as Professor in the Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, N.Y

  • BSN  - Georgetown University

  • MS in psychiatric-mental health nursing at Ohio State University

  • PhD in nursing at New York University

  • Widely published in nursing and healthcare literature

 

Life Perspective Rhythm Model (1989)

 

Dr. Fitzpatrick, who based her theory on Rogers’s (1983), postulated correlates of human development as the basis for differentiating, organizing, and ordering life’s reality.

 

Major Concepts

 

Key Concepts

 

Dr. Fitzpatrick introduced the dynamic concepts of congruency, consistency, and integrity as complementary with rhythmic patterns. She offered heightened awareness of the meaningfulness of life as an example of a more fully developed phase of human health. Nursing interventions were interpreted as facilitating the developmental process toward health so that individuals might develop their human potential. The meaningfulness of life is manifest through a series of life crisis experiences with potential for growth in one’s meaning for living.

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References:

 

Daniel A. (n.d.). Fitzpatrick’s Nursing Theory. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/about_6578211_fitzpatrick_s-nursing-theory.html

 

Fitzpatrick, J. (2008) Meaning in Life: Translating Nursing Concepts to Research. Retrieved from: https://www.kan.or.kr/kor/shop_sun/files/anr_img/200801/1.pdf

 

Pressler J.L. and Montgomery K.S. (2012). Encyclopedia of Nursing Research 3rd Edition. Springer Publication, New York. Pages 190-191.

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