MARGARET A. NEWMAN Flashcards
THEORY OF HEALTH AS EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS
MARGARET A. NEWMAN
Born on October 10, 1933
MARGARET A. NEWMAN
Bachelor’s Degree – University of Tennessee in 1962
MARGARET A. NEWMAN
Master’s degree – University of California in 1964
MARGARET A. NEWMAN
Doctorate – New York University in 1971
MARGARET A. NEWMAN
She has worked in University of Tennessee, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Minnesotat, University of Minnesota
MARGARET A. NEWMAN
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)
THEORY OF HEALTH AS EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS
Health encompasses conditions here to fore described as illness
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
These pathological conditions can be considered a manifestation of the total pattern of the individual.
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
- The pattern of the individual that eventually manifest itself as pathology is primary and exists prior to structural or functional changes
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
Removal of the pathology in itself will not change the pattern of the individual
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
Health is an expansion of consciousness
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
Health
Pattern
Consciousness
MAJOR CONCEPTS
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”
Health
Characterized by “movement, diversity and rhythm and is described as a “design, or framework as is seen in person-environment interactions”
Pattern
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”
Pattern recognition
• 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
Consciousness
- Movement
- Time
- Space
THREE CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
part of the original explication and has re-emerged in the evolving patterning of unfolding consciousness
relevance of movement, time and space
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
Health
caring in the human health experience
Nursing
It is seen as a partnership between the nurse and client, with both grow in the “sense of higher levels of consciousness”
Nursing
“the human is unitary, that is cannot be divided into parts, and is inseparable from the larger unitary field”
Person/Human
“persons’ as individuals and human beings as a species are identified by their patterns of consciousness”
Person/Human
Persons are “center of consciousness within an overall pattern of expanding consciousness”
Person/Human
Described as a universe of open systems that is built upon Roger’s definition
Environment
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)
THEORY APPLIED TO NURSING
Physical signs and appearances
PARTS OF A PERSON’S UNDERLYING PATTERN THAT EMERGE FROM INTERACTION
Mental/cognition insights
PARTS OF A PERSON’S UNDERLYING PATTERN THAT EMERGE FROM INTERACTION
Emotional expressions
PARTS OF A PERSON’S UNDERLYING PATTERN THAT EMERGE FROM INTERACTION
Spiritual insights
PARTS OF A PERSON’S UNDERLYING PATTERN THAT EMERGE FROM INTERACTION
- Moch (1990)
- Studied women with breast cancer
- Focused on their relationships with significant others
- Discovered a pattern of “health with illness” (Moch, 1998)
RESEARCH COMPLETED MARGARET NEWMAN’S THEORY
“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”
Newman (1997)
