Margaret newman biography

American nursing theorist (1933–2018)

Margaret A. Newman (October 10, 1933 - December 18, 2018) was an American nurse, university professor and nursing theorist. She authored the theory of health as expanding consciousness, which was influenced by earlier theoretical work by Martha E.

Rogers, one of her mentors from graduate school. Newman was designated a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing.

Biography

Newman earned a degree in home economics and English from Baylor University.^[1] She spent five years caring for her mother, who was dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).

"The 5 years I spent with her before she died were difficult, tiring, restrictive in some ways, but intense, loving, and expanding in other ways," she later wrote.^[2] After going through these experiences, Newman decided to become a nurse.^[3]

Newman graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, then Margaret Newman (Breckenbaugh) Dalton (1667-1733) - WikiTree DIXUR