Health as expanding consciousness: pattern recognition and incarcerated mothers, a transforming experience.
Margaret Newman's theory, Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC), was used to examine the life pattern of two incarcerated mothers awaiting release from prison. Pattern recognition provided a way to approach understanding the experience of incarceration in a novel fashion. The process increased trust between the mothers and the nurse, and was a useful strategy in articulating the contribution of nursing science and humanistic care.
Saint Anselm College, Manchester NH, USA.
Margaret Oot
MO
Hayes
Dorothy
D
Jones
D003243:Consciousness; D005260:Female; D053604:Forensic Nursing; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology