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Margaret A. Newman Health as expanding consciousness
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Origin of the HEC Theory Development
Theoretical Framework
Questions to Promote Praxis
Health as Expanding Consciousness
Background
1. How would your practice benefit from this theory?
2. How accessible (easy to understand) do you find this theory?
3. Can you think of experiences you had where this theory could have been applied?
Personal
-Born on October 10, 1933 in Memphis, Tennessee
Education
Bachelor’s degree
University of Tennessee
1962
Master’s degree
University of California
1964
Doctorate
New York University
1971
-First Bachelors degree in Home Economics and English.
Margaret A. Newman
-Caregiver for her mother who had ALS
-Roommate was a nursing student
Theoretical Influence
Why Develop HEC Theory?
Learning Activity
Move away from the reductionist model of health as absence of disease
Martha Rogers - The Science of Unitary Human Beings
Articulate the essence of nursing practice
Arthur Young – The Theory of Process
David Bohm – The Theory of Implicate
Itzhak Bentov – The concept of evolution of consciousness
Ilya Prigogine - theory of dissipative structure
Implicit Assumptions:
Humans are...
-Open energy systems
Case Study
Nursing Role in Newman's Theory
Key Concepts
The 4 Basic Metaparadigms
-Evolving pattern of the whole
paradigm shift...
Person
Environment
Health
Nursing
Consciousness
Pattern
Paradigm Shifts
Assisting people to utilize the power within them...
-More than the sum of their parts.
-Intuitive, cognitive, and affective being
Presented By
Yilan Shen, Monica Rai, Laura Merrison
Alisa Palmer & Cassie Bell