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• Margaret Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness provides a perspective that encompasses and goes beyond disease.
• The theory of health as expanding consciousness was created by Margaret Newman in 1978 and has greatly influenced the nursing perspective on health, illness and human consciousness.
• Patient-Nurse Connection is a key concept in Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness.
• Greater meaning in life and connectedness with other people are key elements of Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness.
• Application of health as expanding consciousness involves understanding the client beyond the interpersonal relationship.
• Margaret Newman was born on October 10, 1933, in Memphis, Tennessee.
• Margaret Newman earned a bachelor’s degree in Home Economics and English from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and a second bachelor’s degree in Nursing from the University of Tennessee in Memphis.
• Margaret Newman is a prominent nursing theorist and leader who was recognized for creating Theory of Health as Expanding Human Consciousness in 1978.
• Margaret Newman's educational background includes a baccalaureate degree in Economics and English from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from the University of Tennessee, a Master’s Degree in medical-surgical nursing from the University of California in San Francisco, and a Ph.D from New York University.
• Margaret Newman served as a joint director of a clinical research center and an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee in Memphis in the mid-1960s.
• Margaret Newman won the Living Legend award from the American Academy of Nursing and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
• Margaret Newman was awarded the Distinguished Scholar in Nursing Award from New York University, the Founders Award for Excellence in Nursing Research from Sigma Theta Tau International, the E. Louise Grant Award for Nursing Excellence from the University of Minnesota, and the Sigma Theta Tau International created a Margaret Newman Scholar Award to fund doctoral students who wish to continue to research Newman's theory.
• Margaret Newman's mother was a secretary at Baptist Church, thus Dr. Newman was raised in a Christian community.
• Margaret Newman did not choose a nursing major after high school, but it appeared that one of her roommates at the college was a nursing student who once was asked to assist injured victims after a huge tornado, which made Newman to think over a nursing career for herself again.
• Both mother and daughter developed a great connectedness and came to know each other better and deeper than before.
• Newman decided to become a primary caregiver for her mother.
• The person does not possess consciousness-the person is consciousness.
• Absolute consciousness is equated with love, where all opposites are reconciled and all experiences are accepted equally and unconditionally, such as love and hate, pain and pleasure, and disease and non-disease.
• Persons are centers of consciousness within an overall pattern of expanding consciousness.
• The role of the nurse in this experience is to help clients recognize their patterns, which results in the illumination of action possibilities that open the way for transformation.
• Theorists who influenced Newman's theory development include Martha Rogers, Itzhak Bentov, Arthur Young, and David Bohm.
• Consciousness is both the informational capacity of the system and the ability of the system to interact with its environment.
• The environment is described as a universe of open systems.
• Later, Newman had to come back home when her mother was diagnosed with a chronic, irreversible health condition, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Persons as individuals, and human beings as a species are identified by their patterns of consciousness.
• The human is unitary, that is, it cannot be divided into parts, and is inseparable from the larger unitary field.
• Newman regarded health as a fusion of disease and non-disease.
• Newman discovered that during the hardships of the disease process, she started experiencing similar symptoms and alterations in movement, space, time, consciousness.
• Health is the pattern of the whole of a person and includes disease as a manifestation of the pattern of the whole, based on the premise that life is an ongoing process of expanding consciousness.
• The task of nursing is not to try to change the pattern of a person, but to recognize it as information that depicts the whole and relate to it as it unfolds.
• As individuals select new actions and behaviors, their responses can be transforming, leading to new choices and experiences.
• Health is viewed as a transformative process to more inclusive consciousness.
• Newman believes that the goal of nursing is not to make people well, or to prevent their getting sick, but to assist people to utilize the power that is within them as they evolve toward higher levels of consciousness.
• Nursing is seen as a partnership between the nurse and client, with both growing in the sense of higher levels of consciousness.
• Nurse and patient coming together and moving apart in process recognition, insight and transformation.
• Nursing is the study of caring in the human health experience.
• Newman emphasizes the importance of examining movement-space-time together as dimensions of emerging patterns of consciousness rather than as separate concepts of the theory.
• Care, Core, Care Theory is by Lydia Halls
• Nursing is a participation in care, core and cure aspects of patient care, where CARE is the sole function of the nurse. - Lydia Halls
• Born in New York City on September 21, 1906. - Lydia Halls