NURSING THEORIES

BY GROUP VI
Group 6:Nursing
Theories
❑ Newman’s Theory of health as
expanding consciousness

❑ Parse’s Theory of Human

Becoming
❑ Watson’s theory of human
Caring
❑ Orlando’s Nursing
Process
❑ Locsin’s Technological
Competency
as caring
 Margaret Newman’s
Theory :
HEALTH AS EXPANDING
CONSCIOUSNESS
 MARGARET A. NEWMAN
*Born on October 10, 1993.

*Bachelor’s degree- University of Tennese in 1962

*Master’s degree- University of California in 1964

*Doctorate- New York University in 1971

*She has worked in- University of Tennessee, New York

University, Pennsylvania State University, University of
Minnesota,University  of Minnesota. 
❖ In Newman’s theory or Margaret A. Newman, nursing is the process of recognizing
the patient in relation to the environment, and it is the process of the understanding
of consciousness.

❖ The theory asserts that every person in every situation, no matter how disordered
and hopeless it may seem, is part the universal process of expanding
consciousness a process of becoming more of oneself, of finding greater meaning
in life, and of reaching new dimension of connectedness with other people and the
world. She presented it for the first time in 1978 speaker at a New York conference
on nursing theory the framework and concepts in her book.

❖ In this theory the goal of nursing is not to make people well, or to prevent their
getting sick, but to assist people to utilize the power that is within them as they
evolve toward high levels of consciousness. The basic concepts of Newman’s
theory of health are consciousness, movement, space, and time. Newman’s
thinking and studies were influenced by nurse theorists Dorothy Johnson and
Martha E. Rogers. Patients improve their standing on the health continuum.
RELATIONSHIPS OF CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AS
EXPANDING
RELATIONSHIPS OF CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AS
EXPANDING
❖ The basic concepts of Newman's theory of health are consciousness,
movement, space, and time. Newman (1979) postulated that these
concepts are interrelated in the following way: 1. Time and space have a
complementary relationship.

❖ The importance of Newmans health in todays nursing to help and

understand people to use the power within to develop the higher level of
consciousness. Thus it helps to realize the disease process, its recovery and
prevention. Newman also explains the interrelatedness of time, space and
movement.
Margaret Newman Books
 
- HEALTH AS EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS (1986)
❑ THEORY DEVELOPMENT IN NURSING (1979)

❑ TRANSFORMING PRESENCE: THE DIFFERENCE THAT NURSING MAKES (2007)

 
A pattern of evolving, expanding, consciousness regardless of the form or
direction it takes.

Thus it helps to realize the disease process, it’s recovery and prevention,
Newman’s also explain the interrelatedness of time, space and movement.

It is very important for us that we should know our health that we are still
facing this struggle everyday. We should know what we are going to do, as a
part of this journey we should one to lead what is the best way to avoid
many causes and prevent many illnesses.

Time and space have temporal patterns of the individual, both have
complementary relationships…. Every second is very important to us as
human being, human constantly change through time and space and it
shows a unique pattern of reality.
THANK
YOU !