Margaret A. Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness

If the future of nursing is to be strong and of greatest service to the health of the global community, nursing practice must be deeply rooted in the knowledge of the discipline while responding with agility to societal trends and conditions. Thirty-three years ago at a nursing theory conference in New York City, Margaret A. Newman put forth a theory of health that called nurses to attend to the evolving pattern of interac-tions between people and their environments. Since that time, nurses from several countries have generated nursing knowledge inspired by Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness