Margaret Newman

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in Memphis, Tennessee. She earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics and English from Baylor University and second bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Tennessee in Memphis.

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Margaret Newman

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The main basis of the development of Newman’s theory.

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Martha Roger’s theory of Unitary Human Beings

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It proposes the view that health is a unidirectional, unitary process of development – an expansion of consciousness that is seen as the ability of the person to interact with the environment

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness

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Encompasses disease and non disease.

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Health

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It can be regarded as the evolving pattern of the person and the environment.

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Health

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It is a process of developing awareness of self and environment together with an increasing ability to perceive alternatives and respond in a variety of ways

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Health

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depicts the whole, and understanding of the meaning of all relationships at once.

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Pattern

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Whatever manifests itself in a person’s life is the explication of the underlying pattern within the person

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Pattern

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occurs within the observer.

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pattern recognition

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Although we may predict the next event in a sequence on the basis of knowledge of the sequence, we cannot make such predictions with certainty because additional information is needed.

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Pattern recognition

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Newman suggests that more of the pattern is revealed as the time frame is expanded.

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Pattern recognition

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the informational capacity of the system and the ability of the system to interact with the environment.

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Consciousness

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It includes not only cognitive and affective awareness, such as thinking and feeling, but also the interconnectedness of the entire system that includes biochemical maintenance and growth processes

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Consciousness

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As human beings develop, consciousness grows or expands; as consciousness expands, the more it coexists with the universe.

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Consciousness

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It is important to examine movement-space-time as dimensions of emerging patterns of consciousness

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Movement-Space-Time

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is an essential property of matter and the change that occurs between two states of rest

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
movement

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It is a reflection of consciousness that indicates inner organization or disorganization of persons; it communicates the harmony or a person’s pattern with the environment

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
movement

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_____ and _____ is considered as an index of consciousness.

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
time and timing

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It is important that one is fully present in the moment because all experiences are manifestations of the process of higher consciousness

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
time and timing

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is discussed in conjunction with time and movement.

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Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Space

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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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Newman Person

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

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Newman Person

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The person does not possess consciousness-the person is consciousness”.

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Newman Person

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

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Newman Person

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Health and 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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Newman Health

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Environment is described as a “universe of open systems”

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Newman Environment

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Nursing is “caring in the human health experience”.

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Newman Nursing

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Nursing 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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Newman Nursing