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Award, Division of Nursing, from New York University and discussed conclusions concerning changes neces-
in 1984; admission to the Hall of Fame at the University sary for hospital nursing practice (Newman & Autio,
of Mississippi School of Nursing in 1988; Latin- 1986). From 1986 to 1997, Newman investigated
American teaching fellow in 1976 and 1977; and sequential patterns of persons with heart disease and
American Journal of Nursing scholar in 1979. She was cancer in relation to the theory of health as expanding
Distinguished Faculty at the Seventh International consciousness (Newman, 1995c; Newman & Moch,
Conference on Human Functioning at Wichita, Kansas, 1991). Other publications reflect her passion for inte-
in 1983; received the E. Louise Grant Award for Nursing gration of nursing theory, practice, and research;
Excellence from the University of Minnesota in 1996; is evolving viewpoints on trends in philosophy of nurs-
listed in Who’s Who in American Women, Who’s Who in ing; and analysis of theoretical models of nursing
America,and Who’s Who in American Nursing;and was practice and nursing research (Newman, 1992, 1997b,
included in the Nursing Theorists, Portraits of Excellence, 1999, 2003). During 1989 and 1990, Newman was
vol. 1, 1990 videotape series sponsored by the Helene principal investigator of a project that explored the
Fuld Health Trust (M. Newman, curriculum vitae, theory and structure of a professional model of nurs-
2000; personal communication, 2004). She was a Dis- ing practice at Carondelet St. Mary’s Community
tinguished Resident at Westminster College in Salt Lake Hospitals and Health Centers in Tucson, Arizona
City, Utah, in 1991; received the Distinguished Scholar (Newman, 1990b; Newman, Lamb, & Michaels, 1991).
in Nursing Award at the New York University Division Newman has consulted regarding the expansion
of Nursing in 1992; received the Sigma Theta Tau of her theory of health in more than 40 states and
Founders Elizabeth McWilliams Miller Award for Ex- numerous foreign countries and has served on edito-
cellence in Research in 1993; and received the Nurse rial review panels, including Nursing Research, West-
Scholar Award at Saint Xavier University School of ern Journal of Nursing Research, Nursing and Health
Nursing in 1994 (M. Newman, curriculum vitae, 2000). Care, Advances in Nursing Science, Nursing Science
Newman first presented her ideas on a theory of Quarterly, and the advisory board of Advances in
health in 1978 at a conference on nursing theory in Nursing Science(M. Newman, personal communica-
New York. During this time, she was also pursuing tion, 2004).
research on the relationship of movement, time, and
consciousness and expanding development of her
theory of health as expanding consciousness. In 1985, Theoretical Sources
as a traveling research fellow, Newman conducted The theory, Health as Expanding Consciousness,
workshops in New Zealand and at the University of stems from Rogers’ (1970) science of unitary human
Tampere in Finland, where she was featured at a beings. Rogers’ assumptions regarding wholeness,
weeklong conference on the theory of consciousness pattern, and unidirectionality are foundational to
as it related to nursing (M. Newman, personal com- Newman’s theory (M. Newman, personal communi-
munication, 1988). cation, 2004). Hegel’s fusion of opposites (Acton,
Newman has presented and published papers, 1967) helped Newman conceptualize fusion of health
articles, and book chapters on topics pertaining to her and illness into a new concept of health. Bentov’s
theory of health as expanding consciousness. She (1977) explication of life as the process of expanding
published Theory Development in Nursing(1979), consciousness prompted Newman to assert her new
Health as Expanding Consciousness(1986, 1994), A concept of health as the process of expanding con-
Developing Discipline: Selected Works of Margaret sciousness (M. Newman, personal communication,
Newman(1995a), and Transforming Presence: The Dif- 2004).
ference That Nursing Makes (2008). In 2011, Nursing Bohm’s (1980) theory of implicate order supports
Science Quarterly,volume 24, number 3, recognized Newman’s postulate that disease is a manifestation
Dr. Newman with a special issue honoring her and of the pattern of health. Newman (1994) stated that
her work. she began to comprehend “the underlying, unseen
In 1986, Newman did a case study analysis of prac- pattern that manifests itself in varying forms, in-
tice at three sites within the Minneapolis-St. Paul area cluding disease, and the interconnectedness and