Guest Contributor: Raymond R. Romano, III Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC) transformed nursing's understanding of health by reframing disease as manifestations of an evolving life pattern.1 The theory has generated decades of scholarship and insights into practice. Newman's greatest insight may have been that consciousness is revealed through pattern.2 If patterns can emerge not only … Continue reading Is It Time to Move from Individual to Network Consciousness? Revisiting Health as Expanding Consciousness in an Era of Social Complexity Science
Health as Expanding Consciousness
Pattern Recognition, the Nurse-Patient Relationship and Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC)
Guest Contributor: Margaret ( Peggy) Settle, PhD, RN, NE-BC Nurses in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) are great observers. They carefully notice premature and critically ill infants’ behavioral responses based on the elements of the Synactive Theory of Behavioral Organization and Development (Als, 1982). This Bio-behavioral theory focuses the nurse’s attention on the infant’s … Continue reading Pattern Recognition, the Nurse-Patient Relationship and Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC)
UTHSC College of Nursing Highlights Nursing Theory In New Center of Excellence
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Memphis, Tenn. (November 18, 2021) – The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing has established a Center of Excellence that builds on the legacy of alumna Margaret A. Newman, PhD, RN, a world-renowned leader in nursing theory. Dr. Margaret Newman One of the college’s most famous alums, Dr. Newman, … Continue reading UTHSC College of Nursing Highlights Nursing Theory In New Center of Excellence
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes to the meaning of our experiences based on Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness (HEC)
Report from the Newman Theory/Research/Practice Society (a Japanese Nonprofit Organization) Contributors: Emiko Endo, Satoko Imaizumi, Minako Kakimoto, Yayoi Kajiwara, Yoshie Kamiya We are pleased to write our blog about the 2020 work of the Newman Theory/Research/Practice Society in Japan. We submitted a brief about our Society on January 10, 2019 (scroll down here to see … Continue reading Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes to the meaning of our experiences based on Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness (HEC)