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Using Margaret A. Newman's Theory of Health With Elderly Nursing Home Residents
Author(s) -
Weingourt Rita
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1998.tb01003.x
Subject(s) - nursing homes , nursing , nursing theory , consciousness , psychology , point (geometry) , gerontology , medicine , medline , geometry , mathematics , neuroscience , political science , law
TOPIC. The use of Margaret A. Newman's theory by psychiatric nursing students with elderly nursing home residents. SOURCE. The author's work with baccalaureate nursing students. CONCLUSIONS. Nurses who form relationships with elderly nursing home residents can help their clients identify problematic patterns, move to a choice point, then to a higher level of consciousness, resulting in a reduction in problematic patterns of behavior.