She began college at the University of Tennessee, studying pre-med (1931-1933) and withdrew due to pressure that medicine was an unsuitable career for a woman.
The following year she received an undergraduate degree in public health nursing at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee.
Its primary tenets include the following:[3] A form of energy medicine, the Science of Unitary Human Beings is based on the idea that "human beings and environment are energy fields" that are characterized by "four-dimensionality", a "nonlinear domain without spatial or temporal attributes"; postulates that physicist Alan Sokal describes as "pseudoscientific verbiage" and "perfectly meaningless".
[4] Jef Raskin wrote that Rogers' writings were filled with contradictions, "fuzzy physics," and vagaries.
"Unlike science, nursing theory has no built-in mechanisms for rejecting falsehoods, tautologies, and irrelevancies.