MARGARET A. NEWMAN

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THEORY OF HEALTH AS EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS

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MARGARET A. NEWMAN

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Born on October 10, 1933

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MARGARET A. NEWMAN

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Bachelor’s Degree – University of Tennessee in 1962

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MARGARET A. NEWMAN

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Master’s degree – University of California in 1964

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MARGARET A. NEWMAN

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Doctorate – New York University in 1971

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MARGARET A. NEWMAN

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She has worked in University of Tennessee, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Minnesotat, University of Minnesota

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MARGARET A. NEWMAN

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stimulated by concern for those whom health as the absence of disease or disability is not possible. It asserts that every person in every situation, no matter how disordered and hopeless it may seem, is part of the universal process of expanding consciousness (Newman, 2010)

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THEORY OF HEALTH AS EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS

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Health encompasses conditions here to fore described as illness

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MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS

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These pathological conditions can be considered a manifestation of the total pattern of the individual.

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MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS

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3. The pattern of the individual that eventually manifest itself as pathology is primary and exists prior to structural or functional changes

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MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS

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Removal of the pathology in itself will not change the pattern of the individual

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MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS

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Health is an expansion of consciousness

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MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS

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Health
Pattern
Consciousness

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MAJOR CONCEPTS

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an expansion of consciousness defined as the informational capacity of the system and seen as the ability of the person to interact with the environment (Newman, 1994) according to Newman, “Health is the pattern of the whole, and wholeness is One cannot lose it or gain it”

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Health

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Characterized by “movement, diversity and rhythm and is described as a “design, or framework as is seen in person-environment interactions”

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Pattern

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the insight or recognition of a principle, realization of a truth or reconciliation of a duality and is key to the process of evolving to a higher level of consciousness”

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Pattern recognition

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• Includes not only the cognitive and affective awareness normally associated with consciousness, but also the interconnectedness of the entire living system, which includes physiochemical maintenance and growth processes as well as the immune system. This pattern of information, which is the consciousness of the system, is part of a larger, undivided pattern of an expanding universe

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Consciousness

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• Movement
• Time
• Space

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THREE CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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part of the original explication and has re-emerged in the evolving patterning of unfolding consciousness

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relevance of movement, time and space

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illness are synthesized as health – the fusion on one state of being (disease) with its opposite (non-disease) results in what can be regarded as health

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Health

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caring in the human health experience

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Nursing

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It is seen as a partnership between the nurse and client, with both grow in the “sense of higher levels of consciousness”

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Nursing

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“the human is unitary, that is cannot be divided into parts, and is inseparable from the larger unitary field”

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Person/Human

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“persons’ as individuals and human beings as a species are identified by their patterns of consciousness”

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Person/Human

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Persons are “center of consciousness within an overall pattern of expanding consciousness”

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Person/Human

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Described as a universe of open systems that is built upon Roger’s definition

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Environment

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Our nursing responsibility is to help patients let go of the artificial boundaries they have imposed on their lives and get in touch with the whole” (Newman, 2003)

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THEORY APPLIED TO NURSING

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Physical signs and appearances

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PARTS OF A PERSON’S UNDERLYING PATTERN THAT EMERGE FROM INTERACTION

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Mental/cognition insights

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PARTS OF A PERSON’S UNDERLYING PATTERN THAT EMERGE FROM INTERACTION

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Emotional expressions

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PARTS OF A PERSON’S UNDERLYING PATTERN THAT EMERGE FROM INTERACTION

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Spiritual insights

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PARTS OF A PERSON’S UNDERLYING PATTERN THAT EMERGE FROM INTERACTION

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• Moch (1990)
• Studied women with breast cancer
• Focused on their relationships with significant others
• Discovered a pattern of “health with illness” (Moch, 1998)

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RESEARCH COMPLETED MARGARET NEWMAN’S THEORY

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“It is time to break with a paradigm of health that focuses on power, manipulation and control and move to one of reflective, compassionate consciousness”

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Newman (1997)