Margaret Newman Flashcards
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.
Margaret Newman
The main basis of the development of Newman’s theory.
Martha Roger’s theory of Unitary Human Beings
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
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Encompasses disease and non disease.
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Health
It can be regarded as the evolving pattern of the person and the environment.
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Health
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
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Health
depicts the whole, and understanding of the meaning of all relationships at once.
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Pattern
Whatever manifests itself in a person’s life is the explication of the underlying pattern within the person
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Pattern
occurs within the observer.
pattern recognition
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.
Pattern recognition
Newman suggests that more of the pattern is revealed as the time frame is expanded.
Pattern recognition
the informational capacity of the system and the ability of the system to interact with the environment.
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Consciousness
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
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Consciousness
As human beings develop, consciousness grows or expands; as consciousness expands, the more it coexists with the universe.
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Consciousness
It is important to examine movement-space-time as dimensions of emerging patterns of consciousness
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Movement-Space-Time
is an essential property of matter and the change that occurs between two states of rest
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
movement
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
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
movement
_____ and _____ is considered as an index of consciousness.
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
time and timing
It is important that one is fully present in the moment because all experiences are manifestations of the process of higher consciousness
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
time and timing
is discussed in conjunction with time and movement.
Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Space
“The human is unitary, that is cannot be divided into parts, and is inseparable from the larger unitary field”
Newman Person
“Persons as individuals, and human beings as a species are identified by their patterns of consciousness”
Newman Person
The person does not possess consciousness-the person is consciousness”.
Newman Person
Persons are “centers of consciousness” within an overall pattern of expanding consciousness”
Newman Person
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”.
Newman Health
Environment is described as a “universe of open systems”
Newman Environment
Nursing is “caring in the human health experience”.
Newman Nursing
Nursing is seen as a partnership between the nurse and client, with both grow in the “sense of higher levels of consciousness”
Newman Nursing
