Introduction

• The Parse theory of human becoming guides nurses In their practice to focus on quality of life as it is described and lived (Karen & Melnechenko, 1995).

• The human becoming theory of nursing presents an alternative to both the conventional bio-medical approach and the bio-psycho-social-spiritual (but still normative) approach of most other theories of nursing.(ICPS)

• The human becoming theory posits quality of life from each person's own perspective as the goal of nursing practice.(ICPS)

• Rosemarie Rizzo Parse first published the theory in 1981 as the "Man-living-health" theory (ICPS)

• The name was officially changed to "the human becoming theory" in 1992 to remove the term "man," after the change in the dictionary definition of the word from its former meaning of "humankind."