Grand Theories Flashcards
Concepts and propositions that are less broad and abstract than a conceptual model but not as specific and concrete as middle-range theory.
Grand or Macro Theory
What is the theory of Margaret Newman?
Theory of Health as an Expanding Consciousness
A joint director of nursing of a clinical research center at the University of Tennessee in Memphis
Margaret Newman
Began working as a nurse theorist at the University of Minnesota
Margaret Newman
What year did Margaret Newman retired from teaching?
1996
What award did she received from New York University?
Distinguished Scholar in Nursing Award
was stimulated by concern for those for whom health as the absence of disease or disability is not possible.
Theory of Health as an Expanding Consciousness
A process of becoming more of oneself, of finding greater meaning in life, and of reaching new dimensions of connectedness with other people and the world.
Theory of Health as an Expanding Consciousness
Margaret Newman’s theory arose from?
Roger’s Theory of Unitary Human Beings
encompasses conditions described as illness, or, in medical terms, pathology.
Health
caring in the human health experience.
Nursing (Newman)
recognizing the individual in relation to the environment, and it is a process of the understanding of consciousness.
Nursing (Newman)
are centers of consciousness with an overall pattern of expanding consciousness.
Person (Newman)
In Newman’s Theory the environment is described as?
universe of open systems
The theory explains that health and illness are synthesized as
health (Newman)
is beneficial because it can be applied in any setting and “generates caring interventions.
Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness Theory
What is the theory of Rosemarie Rizzo Parse?
Theory of Human Becoming
Founder and current editor of Nursing Science Quarterly
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
An active Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
How many books did Parse published? articles?
9 books
more than 100 articles
Guides nurses to focus on quality of life from each person’s own perspective as the goal of nursing.
Theory of Human becoming
It presents an alternative to most of the other theories of nursing, which take a bio-medical or bio- psycho-social-spiritual approach.
Human Becoming Theory
The Human Becoming Theory is a combination of?
biological, psychological, sociological, spiritual factors
What are the three themes of Hman Becoming theory?
meaning
rythmicity
transcendence
Human Becoming is choosing personal meaning in situations, and that a person’s reality is given meaning through experiences he or she lives in the environment.
meaning
Human Becoming is cocreating rhythmical patterns of relating with the universe, and that a person and the environment cocreate in rhythmical patterns.
rhythmicity
Human Becoming refers to reaching beyond the limits a person sets, and that a person is constantly transforming him or herself.
Transcendence