Weingourt R
Sapporo Medical University, School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido, Japan.
Perspect Psychiatr Care. 1998 Jul-Sep;34(3):25-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1998.tb01003.x.
The use of Margaret A. Newman's theory by psychiatric nursing students with elderly nursing home residents.
The author's work with baccalaureate nursing students.
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.