Margaret A. Newman and Her Theory Live in Our Nursing Practice

It has been 20 years since nursing practice based on Margaret Newman’s theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC) began to take root in Japan. Marking this year as a time of blessing, we reflected on our journey and concentrated on the core of HEC: “liberation and freedom accompanying pattern recognition.” We selected meaningful passages from Newman’s works and sought to relate their meanings to our everyday nursing practice through deep exploration and careful examination. Consequently, we confirmed that HEC is alive within our practice and that it truly embodies the principle that theory lives within practice, and practice gives life to theory, and vice versa. We report here.