Margaret Newman: Health As Expanding Consciousness

Question 1

• The human is unitary, that is, cannot be divided into parts, and is inseparable from the larger unitary field.
• Individuals, human beings as species are identified by their patterns of consciousness
• “The person does not possess consciousness- the person is consciousness”
• Persons are “centers of consciousness” within an overall pattern of expanding consciousness”

Answer 1

Human

Question 2

• Synthesized as heath fusion on one state of being (disease) with its opposite (non-disease) results in what can be regarded as health.

Answer 2

Health

Question 3

• Caring in the human health experience

- Seen as a partnership between the nurse and client, with both grow in the sense of higher levels of consciousness.

Answer 3

Nursing

Question 4

Universe of open systems

Answer 4

Environment