In Search of Unitary Sympathetic Vibrations: A Response to Parse's "Investing the Legacy: Martha E. Rogers' Voice will Not be Silenced"‪.‬

Martha E. Rogers was nursing's most significant leader since Florence Nightingale and was nursing's most creative revolutionary. Rogers' thoughts and contributions revolutionized the discipline of nursing. In a tribute to Florence Nightingale, Rogers (1994) stated "we build on the shoulders of giants, and Nightingale was certainly a giant in the history of nursing and health" (p.33). More than any other nurse scholar and scientist, Rogers built upon and stretched Nightingale's vision of nursing. Martha E. Rogers is nursing's 20th century intellectual giant. Parse's paper succinctly clarifies and illuminates Rogers' most significant contributions to nursing science. Indeed, Rogers' vision of nursing as a learned and unique basic science of irreducible pandimensional human and environmental energy fields in unpredictable mutual process has shaken nursing's foundation. Parse's use of the earthquake metaphor illustrates with power both the destructive force that Rogers' vision had upon nursing's long-time dependence on medicine and the constructive potentialities released in the form of the Science of Unitary Human Beings.