Margaret Newman Flashcards

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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.

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Health

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M. Newman’s theory

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Health as Expanding Consciousness

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3
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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

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health

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4
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A transformative process to more inclusive consciousness

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health

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5
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Information that depicts the whole and understanding of the
meaning of all the relationships at once.

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Pattern

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6
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Gives unity in diversity.

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pattern

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7
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Understand person as a whole being

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Pattern

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Examples of explicit manifestations of patterns

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• Genetic pattern- information that directs becoming
• Voice pattern
• Movement patter

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9
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Characteristics of pattern

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• Movement
• Diversity
• Rhythm

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10
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Both the information capacity of the system to interact with its environment

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Consciousness

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11
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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”

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Consciousness

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12
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3 Correlates of consciousness as manifestations of the
pattern of the whole

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• Time
• Movement
• Space

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13
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What life and health is all about, and the sense of time is an indicator in the changing level of consciousness.

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Expansion of consciousness

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14
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Is equated with love, where all experiences are reconciled and all experiences are accepted equally and unconditionally (love and hate)

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Absolute consciousness

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15
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Dimensions of emerging patterns of consciousness rather than as separate concepts of the theory.

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Movement-Space-Time

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16
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Newman’s implicit assumptions about human nature

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• Unitary
• an open system
• in continuous interconnectedness with the open system of the
universe
• continuously engaged in an evolving pattern of the whole

17
Q

a process that occurs regardless of what actions nurses perform

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Unfolding Consciousness

18
Q

facilitate pattern recognition in clients by forming relationships with them at critical points in their lives and connecting with them in an authentic way

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nursing

19
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perceives patterns in client’s stories or sequences of events that change with the new information

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nursing

20
Q

Clients get in touch with the meaning of their lives through identification of meanings in the process of their evolving patterns of relating.

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Dialectic Nurse-Client Relationships

21
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“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

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Dialectic Nurse-Client Relationships

22
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participants in the transformative process

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Clients

23
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family and community. Identified by their individual patterns of consciousness and defined as “centers of consciousness within an overall pattern of expanding consciousness”

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Persons

24
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the major concept of Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness

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Health

25
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cannot be gained or lost. Becoming ill does not diminish wholeness within the perspective but wholeness takes on a different form.

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Wholeness

26
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means whereby space and time become a reality. Reflection of consciousness.

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Movement

27
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in a constant state of motion and is constantly changing internally (at the cellular level) and externally (body movement and interaction)

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Humankind

28
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a function of movement and a measure of consciousness

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Time

29
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allows the pattern of person-environment to reveal itself without disturbing the unity of pattern

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Hermeneutic dialectic