What is it about?
Health as expanding consciousness emphasizes that nurses should identify the interplay of different life patterns of patients on their health and illness. The literature review showed that this theory is useful and can guide nursing practice.
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Why is it important?
Nursing in the current complex settings and improving patient centered care can be achieved by using the theory of health as expanding consciousness.
Perspectives
Explaining the importance of a nursing theory was challenging because in today's' practice a little emphasis has been placed on nursing theory based practice.
Dr. AHTISHAM YOUNAS
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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This page is a summary of: Finding Patterns of Meaning: Margaret Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness, Creative Nursing, January 2017, Springer Publishing Company,
DOI: 10.1891/1078-4535.23.4.207.
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