Margaret Newman Flashcards
The “pattern of the whole” of a person and includes a manifestation of the pattern of the whole, based on the premise that life is an ongoing process of expanding consciousness.
Health
M. Newman’s theory
Health as Expanding Consciousness
The evolving pattern of the person and the environment and is viewed as an increasing ability to perceive alternatives and respond in a variety of ways
health
A transformative process to more inclusive consciousness
health
Information that depicts the whole and understanding of the
meaning of all the relationships at once.
Pattern
Gives unity in diversity.
pattern
Understand person as a whole being
Pattern
Examples of explicit manifestations of patterns
• Genetic pattern- information that directs becoming
• Voice pattern
• Movement patter
Characteristics of pattern
• Movement
• Diversity
• Rhythm
Both the information capacity of the system to interact with its environment
Consciousness
Includes not only cognitive and affective awareness but also the “interconnectedness of the entire living system which includes physiochemical maintenance and growth processes as well as the immune system”
Consciousness
3 Correlates of consciousness as manifestations of the
pattern of the whole
• Time
• Movement
• Space
What life and health is all about, and the sense of time is an indicator in the changing level of consciousness.
Expansion of consciousness
Is equated with love, where all experiences are reconciled and all experiences are accepted equally and unconditionally (love and hate)
Absolute consciousness
Dimensions of emerging patterns of consciousness rather than as separate concepts of the theory.
Movement-Space-Time
Newman’s implicit assumptions about human nature
• Unitary
• an open system
• in continuous interconnectedness with the open system of the
universe
• continuously engaged in an evolving pattern of the whole
a process that occurs regardless of what actions nurses perform
Unfolding Consciousness
facilitate pattern recognition in clients by forming relationships with them at critical points in their lives and connecting with them in an authentic way
nursing
perceives patterns in client’s stories or sequences of events that change with the new information
nursing
Clients get in touch with the meaning of their lives through identification of meanings in the process of their evolving patterns of relating.
Dialectic Nurse-Client Relationships
“The emphasis of this process is on knowing/caring through pattern recognition” Insight into these patterns provides clients with illumination of action possibilities, which then opens the way for transformation
Dialectic Nurse-Client Relationships
participants in the transformative process
Clients
family and community. Identified by their individual patterns of consciousness and defined as “centers of consciousness within an overall pattern of expanding consciousness”
Persons
the major concept of Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness
Health
cannot be gained or lost. Becoming ill does not diminish wholeness within the perspective but wholeness takes on a different form.
Wholeness
means whereby space and time become a reality. Reflection of consciousness.
Movement
in a constant state of motion and is constantly changing internally (at the cellular level) and externally (body movement and interaction)
Humankind
a function of movement and a measure of consciousness
Time
allows the pattern of person-environment to reveal itself without disturbing the unity of pattern
Hermeneutic dialectic
