title: Using Margaret A. Newman's theory of health with elderly nursing home residents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The use of Margaret A. Newman's theory by psychiatric nursing students with elderly nursing home residents.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Medical University, School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido, Japan. rweingo@shs.sapmed.ac.jp
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weingourt
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003243:Consciousness; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005260:Female; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009735:Nursing Homes; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology