Question

Write a 2-page research paper about nurse theorists (Margaret Newman). Must have a title head for this research. Must have at least 2 sources, and 2 references or citations for this paper. NOTE: You can use the textbook and Internet sources for this paper. Your sources must be academic/scholarly. ( NO WIKIPEDIA, ASK.COM, ETC.)

1. You should discuss, write or give a short history of Margaret Newman.

2. Discuss their major accomplishments.

3. Discuss how they have made an impact on today's nursing practice.

Note: must be more than 1-page research, 2 References

Answer 1

1.Dr. Newman was indeed a visionary, introducing her theory of health over four decades ago

Margaret Newman was born on October 10, 1933 in Memphis, Tennessee. Her mother was a secretary at Baptist Church – thus Dr. Newman was raised in a Christian community. It influenced her decision to join missionary service later in life; there she realized for the first time she could not address people’s spiritual needs without attempting to take care of their physical needs as well. Newman did not choose a nursing major after high school. However, it appeared that one of her roommates at the college was a nursing student who once was asked to assist injured victims after a huge tornado. It made Newman to think over a nursing career for herself again. Later she had to come back home when she learned her mother was diagnosed with a chronic irreversible health condition – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She decided to become a primary caregiver for her mother. Newman realized that “simply having a chronic disease does not make a person unhealthy” (Parker& Smith, 2010, p. 291). Newman became convinced that her mother could still experience health in spite of her having degenerative neurological disease; she formulated that her mother’s life was “confined” by the condition but not “defined” by it. Also Newman discovered that during the hardships of the disease process when she was giving care to her mother she started experiencing similar symptoms and alterations in “movement, space, time, consciousness” (Parker&Smith 2010, p. 291). Both mother and daughter developed great connectedness and came to know each other better and deeper than before. This experience helped Margaret Newman to make her final decision – to come back to school again to become a nurse. Newman earned bachelor’s degrees from Baylor University and the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, a master’s degree from University of California San Francisco and a PhD from New York University. She served as faculty at New York University, University of Tennessee and Penn State before coming to the University of Minnesota.In the 1980s, she served as a civilian consultant to the U.S. Surgeon General for Nursing Research. She retired from teaching in 1996 and was named faculty emeritus by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. After her retirement, she remained active advancing nursing theory, education, research and practice through her presentations and publications, including her seventh book, Transforming Presence: the Difference that Nursing Makes.

Margaret Newman is a prominent nursing theorist and leader. She was recognized for creating Theory of Health as Expanding Human Consciousness in 1978; her theory greatly influenced the nursing perspective on health, illness and human consciousness (Why I want to be a nurse, 2014).

Margaret Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness is considered a grand nursing theory, she described a process of becoming more of oneself, of finding greater meaning in life, and of reaching new dimensions of connectedness with other people and the world. Nurses in Kenya have mostly used the psychosocial-medical model to nurse HIV infected patients which fails to answer many of the nursing concerns and reduces their autonomy in carrying out nursing care. Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness is therefore a generic tool applicable to guide psychosocial nursing care of clients infected with HIV. It would be a great resource with a potential to evidence based nursing care. It would provide a basis for several case studies. Nurses find more fulfilment in their work by utilizing a nursing theory.